, 1862-05-17
GDG GtihuMG.
SATURDAY, MAY. II, 1862.



BxASPERATI1G THE EEBELs.
Amid all the changing fortunes Of this
cventfal war, the Northern tory who calls
himself conservative, has only expressed
s!lici,ude in regard to three things-*hat
tie Union be restored as it toas, that the
<sAboitionists" be crushed out, and that
tie rebels be not "exasperated" 1t was
this fear Of exasperating traitors that de-
1nandca an apology from Mr. Lincoln for
having been e1ected-the surrender OF the
Constitution to the slave power evac-
nation Of Sumter and Pickens; that OPP
1,oscd coercion" in any form-eve1y pre-
partition for wa1-the invasion Of rebel
States rigorous operations On land or va
emancipation in the District-the pun
;sbn,ent Of rebel barbar1ties- -hberating
1ovs1 blacks -con6scation- When trca-
ron first got a foothold in Mis-
eou1i, when it took armed pos
poesesnon Of Tennessee, when it invaded
Kentucky, when it built Notifications On
the Mississippi, the false, insidious tory
still lied, and canted, and deprecated what
ever might tend to exasperate" his breth-
zen. Amid scenes Of riot and murder,
amid insults and outrages which no free
people ever bore with patience, he was
only fearful that something might be done
to exasperate'' the traitors They
fired On defenseless women and children;
they burned, and ravaged, and destroyed;
they poisoned wells and springs; they
tempted hungry soldiers with food con
tainirg arsenic; they denied their prison
ers food and shelter; they Knocked at the
agony Of wounded enemies, and left the
slain unburied; drinking-cups they made
Of human skulls, spurs Of jaw-bones, and
tirecr:ioints they sent as holiday presents
to females as british as asthemselres; but all
those horrible deeds only made Northern
4x4zce men cry ont the louder agains. "c1as-
pcra,ing'' them!
Never before did civilized man 60 down
50 low in cruelty and Ei}lainy- It seemed
as If all the fountains Of latent human de-
pravity had been broken up and poured
out by the rebels. They came upon the
stage with role Of original crimes never
acted before, nor written down, nor thought
Of; all startling, and grotesque, and hide
GUS. The evidences Of their common ori-
gin were unnisiakeable. This herd Of
cut-throats in Western Texas-halfbreeds,
ignorant, degraded, priest-ndden; ruffians
who were finally beaten out of Kansas
the scum Of Southern rasca1ity banishcd
from California by the Vigilance Commit
tee; the mass eager for mischief and anar-
chy-the leaders hardened and heartless,
with just enough ability to com
n,and sucl tolIowers-these barbarous
wretchcs behaved neither better
no1 worse than the proud and boastful Vir-
giniaps- -liucal descendants Of the knights
of Newgate and the daughter Of Pocahon-
tas; they behaved neither better nor worse
than the "high-mindcd, but misguided u
sons Of legal Kentuck1ans and Marylsnders
"lurcd by bad associates into the meshes
Of treason. All alike took willingly to
poisoning, and lying, and stealing; to set
ting torpcdoes for unsuspecting soldiers, to
insulting helpless prisoners. The same
baneful spirit ruled over all; their characters
were formed in The molds Of slavery, and
dissimilar as they were in other respects
as traitors they became fused into one com
mon homogeneous mass They spoke th'
same language Of bravado and hatred, plum
dercd with the same avidity, swaggered il
the same strain about taking "Tankc
scalps," and ran ut the same pace whel
scared.
These are the peop1e we are warned agairs
"exasperating'' These are the peopl
whose crimes must not be punished by cor
fscation Three hundred million dollar
Of The substance Of loyal ,ncn have the
conflsca.ed already In equal amount hay
they stolen OF destroyed; and yet the
Chicago mouth-ricce has the et1rontcry 1
SAT, il its own clumsy style: "The on1
@pcssible effect ofconfscation by Consrcs
"of course, would be to exasperate sti
"morc the people of the South, and max
"recesEa1y the expenditure Of just E
"n,uch more blood and treasure to suppre
tl,is rebellion" The Times also insists tn
tic duration Of this war will he in propo
tinn to the evaporation of tue rebel
whom, it informs US, we have already e1a
perated 1y attempting to put them dow
If there be any meaning in such stuff, it
t1is-that the hardcr VIC fight, and Il
more VIC cripple their resources, the long
will be the contest; and that the best ".
to conquer them would be TO exasperat
them as little as possible in other wore
10 surrender to them at discretion
Punishment Of any kind exaspcrat
criminals, Is that an argument agalu
punishment ? Should the policy Of o.
Government be shaped to suit tho tastes
traitors? Perhaps this is what the Tin
means when it pratcs about restoring Il
Union as it zcas. We have read much p1
slavery nonsense; Tut nothing SO exquisi
as these two points-that We should avo
giving offence to traitors, and that weakc
ing IN cnemy's resources by conGscatiG
lncrcascs bis power to prolons the conte:
=Ns@.=--
LET TS GIARE AGAINST SCI
VILE INsURRECTION.
Ofthe four million Slaves in the Sou
there are rot fifty thousand full-gro
men and wamen who do not know u
the object Of the rebellion was the peri
uation Of their enslavemcnt. They kn
right well that the utter overthrow Of
rebels must destroy the Internal syst
which dcgTadcs them to the level Of bea
They secretly hope and pray for eman
patton, and in that hope they maintai
fearful quiet Only few of them have b.
made to believe that the Northern peo
design selling them to Cuba They arc