Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-05-29

patent to the eye OF every man. hence
we see them poison wells. bury torpe-'
does to destroy unarmed men, insult
and shoot prisoners, mutilate the bodies
Of the dead, employ sayages TO scalp
and slsy the whites on our frontiers,
shoot down pickets, and in short, do
everything which hellish malice, and
fendish cruelty can devise. 1t is sur
prising how little, these acts of refined
cruelty, stir the feelings Of the symps-
thizers whh secession in the North
Take every Breckenridge Democratic
paper in the Northern States, and in no
one can you find word Of indignation
or disapprobation at this course of the
traitors. Those that allude to it at all,
do il in such way as not to give Of
fense to JEFF. Davis himself. They
seem to look upon it as prerogatiVe
belonging exclusively to our enemies
and their friends. - .siss C-o sii
Any one Of these sheets, however,
can be found in every issue to. animad-
vert severely upon the course of our
Union officers. Whilst it is perfectly
legitimate for the secesh to call in the
aid of their negroes TO build fortifca-
4
tons, and construct bresstworks from
whence their white masters could safely
take the lives of our brethren, it was
out Of all precedent for Fremont to offer
freedom to any Of those negroes who
would come over and aid our men in
the same work. It is all right for the
rebels to enlistnegroes, not only to shoot
] down our men, but to employ them in
the drudgery and hard labor incident to
camp lfe, SO that the rebel whites may
be preserved in full health and vigor.--
But when Gen. Hunter, acting upon the
instinct of self preservation, and resort
ing to every means for protecting his
men from sickness, disease and death,
undertakes to promise freedom to slaves
who wish it, these patriotic citizens
give vent to their piOus indignation by
saying. "Did we not tell you this was
a war for the abolition Of slavery
Look at Hunter employing niggers in
the army, and declaring them all free
What white man will fight side by side
with a negro" &C.. DC. The black
pilot who brought his vessel and proper
ty therein 10 our Union Commander,
did very wrong, and should at once
have been sent back to the enemy with
the weapons Of death, to be dealt out
upon our own men.
James Buchanan predicted that "ouI
soldiers will be swept off like rotter
sheep in the sickly Southern season. -
Do they wish to have it verified? i
certainly seems SO, when we look a
their frothy rawlings against Genera
Hunter. for taking the course calculated
to save tkem during the warm weather
1t does seem strange that any objec.
ton TO his course should be made BY
men in the North. None will do It bu
secret friends OF the traitors, and thos,
who care more for the reconstruction
of the old Democratic party, than they
do for the lives of our brave soldiers
Surely no one who has brother, son
! or husband in the Federal army on thl
coast of South Carolina, viii be dis
pleased to hear, that hereafter negroe
are to work in trenches, construc
bridges, mend roads, act as spies, ant
our men be relieved from all burden
some and fatiguing duties, which vii
cheerfully be performed by the black
in prospect of freedom. Why shoulc
) these pro-slavery patriots sgonize owe
our own men, doing just what the rebel
have always done? The secesh ma,
> do so, but have they a right to com
> plain If we meet them on equal ground
Il is because of that, and because the,
see secession dying out. that thes
anathemss against abolitiOnists ar
= hurled so 6ercely upon all who dsr
D dissent from them. This cry Of abc
J, litionism is no longer of any avail.
II is dead cock in the pit. All othe
issues between the great parties bein!
: oyerslaughed by this rebellion, the onl
;, one which could be Of any avail wa
abolition. 1t has been as sharp Of
thousand strings" for every rebel sym
: pafhizer in the North to play UPON
y How well they do il, can be seen in th
" daily issues of the Cincinnati Enquirer
and weekly Of the Portsmouth Time:
. Dayton Empire. and others of that i'll
l. But this mighty bugbear is fast losinl
- its formidable influence on the publ
= mind. Thousands and tens of thou
y sands Of honest conservative men, wh
II one year since would have deprecate,