The Nevada journal., 1861-08-23
REBEL BAI;BARITIEs.

the character OF the unholy crusade agains
our government, it is the barbarities pract
lsed on the wounded and dying by the in
carnate fiends under JEFF. Davis. We hay
1t from most undoubted authority that mel
In the South have been robbed of naone'
and property by the Confederate thieves
receiving nothing but Southern bonds, no
worth cent on dollar, and sometimes no
even this poor evidence of thievery has bee,
granted the sufferers. We have the unnues
toned proof that hundreds have been forced
to take up arms against their country tC
save their lives. Men have been compelled
TO put themselves in array against theil
government for fear of punishment worse
than death. 1t is patent fact, that admit:
of no dispute, that Union mef, in the South
have been despoiled of their property, tarred
and feathered, whipped, hung, murdered in
cold blood, or driven out of their homes
destitute into the world by tha infuriate de-
mons who acknowledge allegiance to neither
God or man, but to JEFF. Davis alone. These
facts are notorious, startling the whole civ
ilized world with cruelties such as never
disgraced the later centuries
But the horrors of this rebellious war ha d
not eliminated till the battle at Manassas.
Then it was demoniac fury did glut itself
with horrors. The wounded, the dead and
the dying, were fired on under circumstan-
ces that leave no doubt that it was done
purposelyl A surgeon had thirty DANCE
rouSly wounded under his care. He had
amputated several limbs and they, the suff-
erers and the limbs, were lying about on
the ground. He had hung up his green
sash to show the nature of his occupation
and the purpose to which the spot was de-
voted. A shower of projectiles came pour
ing in upon him. The Kissing of bullets
was mingled with the gl oans of the wounded
and dying. 1t was no place of safety longer,
and the surgeon, finding no one else to send
for ambulances to remove the sufferers to
place of greater security out of the reach
of the guns of the barbarians, went HIM
self. In few minutes the surgeon returned
and found the whole thirty bayoneted and
dead-hterally cut to pieces Groups of
men bearing away the wounded were made
targets for the rfed cannon of the bloody
and revengeful rebels Ambulances on
which the wounded were being borne away
were persistently fred on until in some Ca
ses they had to be abandoned for want of
power to drag them along Hospital flags
were not respected by these fends in human
shape, but buildings filled with the wound
ed, and known by the flags flying to be de-
voted to hospital purposes, were deliberately
shelled and destroyed The wounded aud
the dying were overtaken sabred md stahp
to deatnl Cavalry, chiyalric cavalry o.
Virginia, rode up to hospital and fred
through the open windows at the wounded
stretched on the floors and at the surgeons
in attendance!
The world has never witnessed more in
fernal heartlessness and barbarity than that
displayed by the rebels at Manassas. His
tory may be ransacked for parallel with
out finding it. Civilized nations will stand
aghast at such horrid deeds, fit only for
savages to perpctrate. Wehave never read
of more revolving massaeres than were COM
mitted at Bulls Run by the Confederate
troops. When people has become SO de-
moralized, debased, iEse2sible to the claims
of humanity, ood-thirsiy, and brutalized
us to murder the wounded fallen in battle,
it is time that people should boast no longer
of its chivalry. They have not reached that
era, but are in that stage of civilization
which BELTS the age when the earth exhaled
poisons, was covered with jungle roamed
with horrid monsters, infested with serpents,
and when Kissing dragons darkened the
deadly air. These internal barbarties carry
us back to the time when man had not
moral or religious sentiment but crunched
bones for the marrow, like hvenas, in caves,
and chartered like balloons in primeval for
ests. The assertions of Iverson, Toombs
and Davis, that the North and South are of
different civilizations, must be true. The
bloody scenes just enacted prove it conclu-
sivelv One is the civilization of Dahomey,
the other the civilization of an enlightened
age.
Let freemen, men with appreciable souls
within them, read the sickening particulars
of the massacre of wounded soldiers in
Virginia, and then byeathe whisper of
compromise and concession. He who would
listen to n proposition so base is ready to
make league with hell, and enter into an
alliance with devils.
CONFESS AT DUTCH FLAT.-Conness5 in his
speech at Dutch Flat, endeavoring to corral
few Dixie votes, said of the Republicans
" They are the party that drink cold water
and will not fight" An irrePressible Re-
publican of this county, standing by, Kissed
the remarks, whereupon the Douglas candi-
date for Governor became wroth and de-
manded to know who had dared to interrupt
| him. The individual showed himself prompt
1 ly, and explained. Conness became rantan-
kerous, and the " irrepressible" thinking
the candidate was spelling for fight, cor
daily invited him to "come down and wade
! IN" The affair was, we learn, satisfactorily
arranged between the parties in an inter-
view ,7fter the sneakinp was over