The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-20
The New York Times on III. tfnr.

| The New York Times on The War.
| Of ali thu mean, low, lying, dirty sheets
| published in New York, the Tines is, beyond all
| comparison, the nearest, the lowest, the dirt
lest, and the most mendacious. We had touch
| of its quality last year, in the report of the
| Prince Of Wales visit to this city, and the
| statement that he was insulted here "by gangs
| Of lrshmen," and by other citizens, native
| born and naturalized; more Infamous false
| hood than which was, we venture to say, never
| published. The war in which we are engaged,
| and into which we have been forced by the perth
| nacious determination Of the Black Repub-
| lican party 10 rule Us rs their sui ;,
| has given new impulse TO its lying proven
| sites. II has infamieS to smooth over and
| at nothing to effect its object. Profoundly
alarmed by the proclamation of tho " Devo-
ted Band" published by US q short time since,
| it says:
| "Now and then q fash OF hate ana revenge
| breaks out in the South that CLEANS like IRE
| from the intern4l pt We wonder, while we
| observe il, il the days OF the devils chainiuE
| are not ended, and he permitted 10 roam the
| world again, full licensed Tor a season.
| If the quadrelaterar gentleman who does
| the fine writing for the Times had only for
gotten his personal safety long enough to pay
a visit to he shore while he was instructing
Attorney BUTLER at Old Point in the art Of
retreating, he might have witnessed excuses
which would have added not little to his per
plexity, tr else removed it altogether. lie
might have seen whole country, hut few
months since smiling in peace and prosperity.
converted into bowling wilderness, if not by
the Prince Of Darkness himself At least by
mis- most potent agents on this earth the
vagabond Yankee soldiers Of BUTLER, who
have been sent here 10 burn and pillage.
Ii he had staid long enough in his flight
from Manassas to witness the hanging of two
Confederate captive soldiers by his friends, he
could not possibly have entertained Il doubt
that the enemy Of mankind had ceased 70 act
by means of agents, and had come ia person
to stimulate the z3ai Of his adorers. It is vain
for RAYMOND, or any other professor Of the
art Of lying, 10 deny facts which have already
become the property Of history. The Internal
deeds which have been perpatrated by the
Yankee army can neither ba concealed nor
extenuated. There they stand, e. warning to
ell mankind of the fearful depths TO whioh a
cowardly and degenerate race can descend,
when they no longer feel the strong arm Of
the worlds opinion supporting them over the
abyss of intamy, but are left by a righteous
doom to follow the promptings Of their own
hearts. It il vain for the Times 10 attempt to
draw of attention from the atrocious deeds of
LiscoLS's minions by reprinting the refuted
lies which it has been SO active IN inyenting
and propagating. Its illusions to head
shayings and half-hangings in the South
ern States have ceased to have any effect.
They answered the purpose Of filing the
Yankee ranks six months ago; but Bull Run
is more powerful than RAYMOND lies. Volun-
teer8 cannot be brought TO the eniistin 2
point by all the fabrioations he can either make
on the spot, or all he can revive from the
limbo of long forgotten lies. III the meanwhile,
| the tenderness and consideration with which
| tha Yankee prisoners-coming here to burn,
plunder and raVish-have been treated, gives
iuc 40 ~ s-Ai tA4ht tAS 0S'i4ioA~ hAaA4So VI Il
| thousand "little villainies can invent
| When he tells US that "we" (the Yankees) "are
at war with these people, the Confederates,
and that " ii is all Of their own ordering" the
| falsehood perpetrated is too glaring to admit
Of discussion and when lie says that the
cause Of the war was mere attempt on the
| part of LINCOLN to feed body OF starving
| men, whom the Confederates were seeking to
| murder, as if it were not the same thing to re-
lieye beleaguered garrison and to fire on the
besiegers, our only feeling ia unutterable con
tempt for the understanding OF the Brutalized
| mob who readhis paper.
If this had been ALL the Times would have
received no notice at our hands. But it
has one paragraph which we cannot pass
over. 1t says:
"We have seized the traitors in arms, lis
tened to their cowardly pieadings, and re-
| leased them on paroles OF honor, only 10 find
them in arms again, perjured and I'm piaCab lie.
We have Warred on our part--t( todr tt can.
be cailed--as father might be supposed 10
war with rebeilious and crazy children
with the sole view OF not hurting them"
And this is told us in the face of the impris-
onment of our own privateers, and the march
ing Of them, handcufed and chained, from
loathsome dungeons in ths Tombs, to the Fed
eral Court, there to be tried for their lives, and
| marching them back again, amidst the hootings,
howlings, ,hissings, and threats of furious mobs-
OF the events of Maryland, the occupation
of Baltimore, the imprisonment Of its citizens
without trial in Fort McHenry, the abolition
of the habeas corpus, the conversion of all the
South into military district with no law but
the law military, the search Of houses, the
plunder of private property, the destruction of
the Constitution, and the establishment of a
dictatorship upon its ruins. If the whole South
has been outlawsd, if its entire property has
been condscsted by act of the Yankee Con-
gross, if its citizens, refusing to bear arms in
avor of the Yankee Government, are
at this moment, by law Of the same
Congress, threatened with death, we are to
regard it all as prompted by the same feeling
that father may bs supposed to entertain
for an erring child.
What, after all, is the proposition of the
"Devoted Band" which so terribly alarms the
feat -foOt al stratavist of the Tsnsss Ii pro-