The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-14

officers, or even their self-respect as gentlemen
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Under the heading of ''The Handcuff Story"
the New York Times, of Monday, favors the En-
change with another diatribe concerning the
''Beauty and Booty" of Gen. BEAUREGARDs proc
lamation, and the manaces found at Manassas,
among The stock in trade of the defeated Federal
army. A fair idea may be formed of the veracity
and candor Of the Times article, from the fact
that it disposes of the letter of JOHN l.. HoDsoN,
Adjutant General of Maine, to Col. DUNNELI,
which we copied in our last alluSon to the sub
ject, in the following manner: 'The letter." it
says, "may possibly be genuine, but it has not the
slightest bearing on the statement of the En-
"cha,ge It relates aoho1y to the internal discipline
ota -Iaine regiment and has nothing to do echateor
"lcH tie 80, 600 handouts said to hare been taken
'5r0m tie Union arny, to be used for prisoners"
When our readers remember that the passage from
HoDsoNs letter, to which we especially referred,
precisely this-"You will require Secera1 dozen
handcQf$ for prisoners taken in battle, if not for
your own folks, and you had better procure them
now''-they will appreciate the value of
our contemporaries views, upon a ques-
ton between truth and falsehood. Handouts
'for prisoners taken in battle" are so clearly
matter "relating solely to the internal discipline
''Of Maine regiment" that the most hardened
sceptc can have nothing to doubt after the mere
statement of the proposition.
But we do not propose wasting our time or that
of our readers, in quarrelling with our contempo-
rary about a matter of fact connected with Mr..
LINCoLN's war. If a single point in the game
could be made Of it, we are firmly persuaded that
the Times is perfectly capable Of denying, in the
most positive manner, that there was any battle,
at all, at either Bull Run or Manassas. We do
not expect it, therefore, TO be very scrupulous
about disagreeabe details and we content ourselves
IN consequence, with reterating, that we have re-
ceived information from various private sources, on
which we rely for the substantial truth of the
statement, that large quantities of handouts, in
tended by the Federal troops for the prisoners
they contemplated taking, were found in their
wagons captured by the Conlederates, after the
battle of the 2lst Of July. That they amounted to
precisely thirty thousand in number we are not
prepared to assert. Possibly there may not have
been more than twenty-nine thousand five hun
dred. But that they were found in very large
numbers, there is no doubt whatever If all the
ftty-hve regiments carried "severa Dozen" for
their 'nernal discipline" like the regiment from
Maine, reasonable assortment without more ado,
could readily be accounted for. Those who are
curious to pursue the subject further, will find, in
our Southern Estafette Of to-day, sufficient con-
hrmatory evidence to put the question..at rest
we commend the Times 10 the proper column for
information.
IN regard to the justification which General
bEAUREGARD had, for announcing tBeauty and
booiy as the motto Of the invaders of Virginia
only word need be added. No man-not even
the writer for the Times-undersood the Confed-
crate commander as asserting that the troops at
Washington really carried that Inscription. in
words, on their banners. But that the Southern
people had the right to regard their Grand as
truly described by the atrocious watchword in
uEpute we think is fully shown, not only by the
threats which heralded the invasion, but by the
outrages which have accompanied it. We gave,
at the time, in our own columns, the infamous
language of a Westchester newspaper, in which the
p!under Of the South and the beauty of the women
of Maryland were held out, as the prizes of the
volunteer patriots, whom the worthy compeer @
the Times was summoning to arms. We could re-
produce, lift were worth the trouble, from the files
of the leading Republican journals of New York
and of the Times itself in particular--whole
columns of vindctive and blood-thirsty appeals
to Northern fury, which would have brought
blush to the cheek of ATT1LA the Hun. Nobody
mere has forgotten them-they will be remembered,
WIN disgust and resentment, for generations
Every Southern man-every Marylander-can
recall the blasphemous imprecations with which
our own unhappy city was devoted to rapine and
murder and the internal gods, by the delicate SEN
'Ilnentaiis's, who now sigh over the impropreties
OF General BEAUREGARD's proclamation. Who
'oiee'' 'ne regiments of thieves and cut-throats
Especially enlisted IN New York for deeds of in
lamy, winch soldiers of ordinary wickedness were
not judged capable of perpetrating Does tho
1t"eS remember "BILLY WILSON'S Zouaves - and
HLLSwoRTHs pet lambs" whom it patronized
and praised? Were they oroanized for ah;-.oI-
Gnu manly "ar-or Tor the purpose of adding all
F''' in'qul'y 10 us horrors? What were their
no''oeS ana those of the addresses which gathered
'ne'n 'ogetherF We have stated heretofore that
p'"caruS relterating the appeal of the Westminster
journal referred to above were scattered throuob
various rural districts in PENNSYLVANIA The
statement was made on the information of gentle
men who saw them. So also in regard TO recrnit-
ing olhces elsewhere in the North. If thew had
only copied the editorials of their most
promln ent newspapers, they would have
needed nothing more sangunary and dis.
graceful. And has not the programme been car
ried out? Let Butler campaign, at Old Point
answer the question, with the village of
Hampton in flames, and every decency and shame
OF civilized war laughed utterly to scorn. Let
the pillaged neighborhood of Alexandria add to
the story, with its desecrated churches dismantled
nomesteads and outraged women and children.
Inc 1'"oes must have lost its memory, or must
suppose that other men have lost theirs, when it
ignores .nese things. Let its editors refresh them
serves WIN the reading of their own columns for
the last four months, and complete the fsast br
similar recurrence to the files of the Tra,na ~:
excellent neighbor. They will wonder ~, tn.li
when they have done SO, that Gen. BIZ ,,-nu INN
proclamation should have dealt so charitahIu M,
the cause whose organs they are
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