Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-18
The Outrages Committed by LIncOIn's
Northern Hordes. .


The whole neighborhood around Fortress Monroe
has been deserted, the people having fed from the
lawless hordes which LINCOLN was throwing upon
them. The plunderers have broken open their
houses, robbed them of furniture, wantonly broken
statuary and torn and defaced pictures, destroyed
curtains and musical instruments. brought away
books and family relics which could possibly be of
no use to any but their original owners Such con-
duct has not even the excuse which the theft or
seizure of food, or useful articles would have had
it is purely and outrageously malicious. The same
lawess spirit has been displayed wherever the ma
RAIDERS have gone. correspondent of the New
York World gives the following account OF their
depredations near Evansville:
" 1t is painful to be called upon to report that
few vile fellows, who have enlisted under the three
months CALL were heartless enough to drop off from
the ranks during the march, enter the houses of the
farmers in the vicinity, and ransack them from top
to bottom visited eight or ten which had been
hastily vacated by their occupants, and found in
them gangs of halfdrunken men, belonging to vari-
Gus regiments, overhaulIng drawers, trunks and
chests destroying valuable clothing, bedding, fur
nIture and crockery, and taking off whatever they
coveted from deeds and money down to daguerreO-
types and mantle ornaments. The rack and ruin
which these armed desporadoes caused was whole
sale and most wanton Many houses thus Quilted
belong to well known UniOnsts yet, because found
unprotected. their doors were forced open and de-
predations begun
These outrages are the OutcrOppings of the atrO>
cious sentus.s - forth by the leaders and Jour-
mails of the LINCOLN party at the commencement Of
this unholy war. The soldiers were plainly told
that the commission of murder, rapine and plumber
was their mission. In speech at Cleveland, Ohio,
Gov RANDALL of Wisconsin, said {:
IAN army should go down the Mississippi, and leGUs
trail from MOntg0aerytO Charleston; another should
go down the Eastern coast and the two armies
meet at Charleston. There the war began; there
it ought to end, when the city is l0psd from existence
no monument left there that human being once in
habed tho place for eUen the Ool to boot or the Bit
tern to mourn. loud cheers.l"
The Buffalo (N. " Commercial thus melted the
mongrel hordes sent from that State:
'f So and the combined forces of the rebel States
dare advance, this territory of old tobacco fields
sedge grass and slave pens will be the battle field
between loyalty on one side and treason on the 9th
er, it needs prophet to predict the issue. And,
if necessary the conquest loiu extend through both the
Cqrolinds aud Georgia 70 the Cult, and Westward TO
the Rio Grdnde Torns and cities loiR be laid toaSts
and plantations rGcdged"
And what then? TO the yietors belong the
spos' ConfScation of traitors estate is the tOeu
settled ldlo Of all strong nations Ioth rebeiOS subjects
Their land may be hardly worth taking; but, natu-
rally productive and capable of being restored from
its temporary serility by good culture. it may be
rejuVenated and made fertile. Its climate is genial
and mainly healthful. The fine bays coast and har-
bors of the Atlantic and Gulf may be improved,
and yield untold wealth to the free enterprise of
Northern men. when not slave shall pollute their
borders. Like rGUdged England, lohea conquered by
the invading NOTmdnS the conquered States shall be
pdrceed out to the brdUe soldiers 1oho hare Subdued
them. Occupied by them, they will become richer
in material wealth. and more loyal to the stars and
stripes than before And such will be the des-
tiny of the seeding South, so sure as God reigns
in heaven unless the rebels take counsel of safety
and that speedily-and return to their allegi-
ance"
The New York Tribune, in its issue Of the 10th of
May, thus encouraged such men as BILL WILSON s
regiment of Five Points Thieves to enlist in Old
ABE's service
ave intend net merely to defeat, but 10 conquer,
to Sljugdte them And when the rebelllous traitors
leaves before angry wind 1t must not be to return
to peaceful and cOntsnted homes. They must find
poverty at their treSideS, and prvatlOn III the
ious eyes of mothers and in the rags of children.
The New York Times vas equally atrocious. In
its issue of the oath of May held the following Ian
gusge.
"a lust retributon is already upon Virginia. In
a few days more hundred thousand fighting men
will be on her SOIL sich Ou be devastated by the ter
TbLe storm Of l0ar, her people driven from their homes,
their fields blasted their property destroyed and their
great institution at the mercy of their foes"
This is the language of those who call themselves
Christian men, in the nineteenth century! But 1t
sounds to us rather like the howlngs Of devils than
the words of men.