Shreveport daily news., 1861-08-24

qaence is from a communication in
the Richmond Dispatch. The wri-
ter is q clergyman, whose initials
Rev. DR.. j. G. McC.) are only given.
We venture to say that he can lead a
regiment under any fire. We may
state that Hampton was once the
writer's home, and under his pastoral
charge:
You have read Raymend's testi-
mony to the vandalic conduct of the
Hessians at Hampton. If there is a
righteous God in Heaven-if 'jus-
tice and Judgment are the habitation
of His throne''-if hell be not a fic-
ton and a farce, what will be the
punishment of these fiends in the
hour of death and in the day of judg-
ment, who have desecrated that an
cient church in Hampton, and viola
ting the solemn and sacred repose of
the dead, have hauled the tombstones
from the foundations where the hands
of brok en-hearted relatives had placed
them over dust, which to guard they
would have died ard have barricaded
the church gateway with their frag-
ments? 1t is uselese for any of his
apologists in the Northern papers to
say that Butler does not countenance
this outrage.
II tell him, though clergyman,
he lies" Butler is no man, but Il
dog and dogs death should be his
doom. 1t is little singular, how
ever, that the new made grave in that
churchyard referred to by one Of the
correspondents Of the New York pa
pers-where he saw stakes fixed and
a cross piece above the mound, and
the demoralized demons boiling their
cauldron-is to my own knowledge
the grave of a child Of a Yankee,
who, having made money out of o,,r
people, fed to his cold, unfeeling,
creedless and Goddess North, as soon
| as he found all indignant people Were
preparing to meet the vile invaders
of our soil. The cup is thus pre-
sented to his own lips. Southern
men would have guarded the grave OF
that innocent child, and Southern
maidens would have flung wild flow,
ers there but his own brethren hole
hellish orgies above the dust of his
dead offspring One is almost start
led into the wild cry, 'is this the
10Th century, and is this the grea
nation to whose example the worlc
was invited 2"
/ l also see an extract from New
York paper, that these miscreants en-
tered the house of a lady in Hamp
ton, and breaking open boxes sh
had packed away little memorials in
throwing the contents into the street
also pitching into the yard portrait
of the family. The writer states tha
5 the lady was relative to the lat
Com. Pendergrast that his friends
and admirers, the Lincoln soldiers
5 offered these indignities to the hous
= of his wife's sister, and that the POI
trait of Mrs. Pendergrast shared til
Ffate Of the rest.
y ''Quos Deus vu!t perdere prius dementat.
Let the Lincoln dynasty exult, le
= such men as Winfield Scott, Sc
= ward, Chase. Montgomery, Blair, .
J. idomne genus. hold jubilee the
II day is short, their doom hasteth, the
4 destruction is swift, their damnatio
!. is sure.
Il I have no more doubt that Go
e (and l write it reverently) has give
v the Federal Government in all il
d departments over to judicial bhnt
k ness and madness, than | have tn;
N the handwriting on the wall of IL
40 Chaldean monarch told of his depar
r. ed kingdom and his crownless bro,
And the men Of the Northern pulpi
from Bishop Whittingham to Wa1
d