Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-09-27
TRINITY JOURNAL.
weaverville, Saturday, Sept. e7, 1862.

the knowledge of bis own incnpacity Tor the bnsi-
ness, compared with some Of The Confederate
spirits that must bave gone to bis embrace. But
we believe that what is left, is even an improve
ment on the past in that reasonable virtue.
Lying proclamations, false and malicious repre-
Fentations and charges against the Government
Of the United States, have bccOua" the imperative
duty of every Confederate officer, civil and
military, from guerrilla corporal up TO jeff.
Davis himself The conspiracy was hatch'd aud
matured by the most Infamous scoundrels on
earth and its virtues is being now practised by
the most heartless set of villains that mocked
and disgraced the image Of God The whole
civilized world will be astonished when the true
and impartial history of this rebellion shall have
been written-when the curtain shall have been
raised and the real character and designs of the
ing to civilized government will weep at the
depraviy of man.
Outrage, murder and rapine, are now known
10 be the prominent features and virtues of the
Southern cause. Treachery and assassination
are styled the cream of Southern vaor. Towns
vate dwellings and their inmates burned without
regard TO sex, age condition. Innocent and
helpless females have been outraged and then
butchered, for being the daughters OF Union men.
The eyes of the dying and wounded soldier have
turned with beseeching gaze upon the torlures
Of the brutal tyrants into whose bands they have
fallen. Indignities have been offered TO the
MANNED and crime perpctrated on the bodies of
the dead Union soldiers taken prisoners hage
been chained in cells, with the dead and dying,
aud kept there until the l9ted air of The dun
geon bad almost maddened the brain, and then
made to sew the bodies of their murdered com
panions up in sacks and bury them, Old men
upon the verge of The grave have been driven
from the homes where they and their fathers
were born-because they had nothing farther to
give to The destroyers Of their country, and be-
cause they were not willing and young enough
TO defend treason in the frd The sick and
wounded have been brutally attacked and put TO
death in the ambulances white fngs have been
sent to the Union lines for the purpose of divert
ing and deceiving She officers and commanders Of
our army while the rebel cGnuibals were siaught-
ering in their own camp the poor Union soldiers
they had taken prisoners. These atrocious crimes
will 60 to make up large portion of the history
Of the Southern rebellion aud the degradation
OF the traitors who have carried and arc still
carrying it on.
The settled policy and practice os the Confed-
crate war chiefs has at last developed itself. 1t
Is thaf fnr nj hot ic
murdered in cold blood, and that for every
Union mans home that is destroyed IN any of
the rebel States, communication ia Immediately
sent from the bloody hands Of the assassin to the
Union officer nearest in command stating that
taiu psrto i,o-4 -to hand nf great out.
RACES supposed to have been committed by Union
soldiers. etc. This cunning and dendsh decep
tion has at last betrayed Itself and come to light
through the medium of well authenticated
Southern witnesses. In point of virtue and
honor treason has levclcd the highest prrtender
of the JEFF. Davis Confederacy to the standard OF
the lowest cut-throat in arms against the Gov
.rnment. While the Government was using
every precaution to keep arms out of the hands
of the negroes in Virginia, John G. Breckenridge
was fighting an armed negro corps at the battle
of Baton Rouge While our gallant tars were
busy in rsking their own lives to save the lives
Of The drowning rebels at Memphis, the latter |
were engaged in shooting the drowning Union |
men at White river While our Government
has studiously guarded against any aud every act
contrary TO the most humane and civilized war |
fare, the rebel Government has been aciuat'd |
Hnd governed by the motives and instincts of
hrutes! While the President OF the United !
States has been moderaiing the counsels and
passions Of a jnst and indignant people, and ad-
Using mild and Christian chastiscracnt of the
piratical rpinioEs, JEFF. Davis has been sending
his messages to the hoary beaded Congress Of
lains in Richmond, eppiauding the acts of
murder, assassination and robbery committed by
his blood thirsty guerrillas in the field While
cur Government has been supplying the starving
in Louisiana with bread, the armies of Lee and
jackson have been pundering the people of
Mary land of their property! Such is the quality,
and such the results of the Southern rebellion,
and such will be the peculiar virtue assigned by
correct and impartial history to its leaders and
daf.ndara