The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-08-02
From the Richmond DespascA Gosh.


mander of the steamer virrinis. vh;ch h.S ~.
cupied the attention of the Naval Court n IN
quiry in this city for some time mat h. A
length been disposed of in manner or.t,f,;n.
to that officer and his friends, Whatever NAV -
the difference Of public opinion Concerning ths
matter. The first charge was the the "Culpehls
destruction OF an armed steamer Of the Confed.
crate States Navy" the second, 'NesliRence:s
and the third, "Improvident conduct Ia
court having maturely considered the eyidence
sdduced, came to the conclusion that the sever.
q specifications were net proved, and found that
the accused wa mot guilty" Of either charge.
fm ExcaAHaH o. PRrsoxIas.
A contemporary suggests the very obvious
policy OF exchanging no prisoners until il Is IN.
derstood and stipulated in future private citizens
are not to be arrested BY the armies of Invasion
Host assuredly We ought never to give up .
prisoner until that stipulation be formally en-
entered into. II We agree 70 dismiss, in future,
oil prisoners taken in battle Immediately on d.
role, We relinquish the only means We have, q
long as the enemy is in our country, Of check
ing bis barbarous practice of deporting private
oath OF allegiance to Lincoln. It must be stip.
ulated that the private citizens already incarce.
rated be given up, and no more arrests of q
similar nature be made in future.
Ihere 10 no atrocity Of modern times oompsr-
able to the Yankee policy of deporting and i'm
prisoning the whole population of COUNTRY
Russia fell short of Il In her savage reprisal ON
Poland. Cornwsllttdid something of the Kind
n South Carolina. There have been at least
fifty histories OF that period written BY Yankees
and in every one of them Corn wallis is de-
nounced as monster Of cruelty for this very
thing. All of their books and Fourth of july
orations are to the same tune. Yet here thsy
are. following in bis footsteps, after cursing and
reviling him, at lesst once year, for the last 80
years. In the Congress Of the Old Confedera-
ton, after the surrender of CORVALLIS, men,
Der from South Carolina proposed to treat him
as man who had set the laws of nations At de-
fiance by the very act under consideration.
And here are the righteous Yankees taking him
for their model.
MILITARY 'DEspor.
The orders of zen. Pope, published in the
Dispatch of yesterday, surpass in barbaritv any
thing ever yet proclaimed BY the Unionists ina
Virginia latitude. They sweep away from ever,
citizen who refuses to convert himself into =
slave every vestige of his possessions on the
lace OF the earth. They despoil him Of proper.
ty, home, and liberty, leaving him no possibili-
y OF redress except by proving his loyalty to
the despotic power which inficts upon him the
most intolerable wrongs. 1t is striking illus--
tration of the degrading influence of Puritan
association that this man, Pope, a Kentuckisn.
with good Virginia blood in his veins, should
become SO degraded by bis sfiiation with Yam
KEGS as to surpass them all in his atrocous
schemes Of plumber and oppression. The Con-
tederate Government and people must meet this
inhumsn tool OF tyranny in the same spirit
which be has evoked. It will not do to 6eht
monsters with gloves on. Men of Pores cal6er
construe forbearance into fear. Il is high time
that they should be disabused of that deluaion
BY the most summary vengeance for every deed
of inhumanity and crime.