The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-08-26
RETALIATION,

There is much for our Confederate Legislature
to do as to the organization of the army-the i'm
! provcment OF the drafting law, the confscation
law, and, above all, the retaliation law.
Retaliation to the EXTREMIST end we must have
The minions Of the Northern government are be-
having more brutality than Hay nau himself, or any
other representative Of that Austrian despotism
of which the Northern press used to have so
much to say. President Davis wishes to avoid
the horrors Of the system of warfare which we
all see is impending, but it is evident that we can
not avoid 1t simply by submitting to it. This
VIII only embolden the aggressor. Retaliation
may stop 1t. We think it will. At any rate it
ought to be tried. 1t is due to the honor Of the
country not to permit such outrages as Fitch,
Mitchell, Butler McCook, Pope, Steinwehr and
othe's ave been perpretrating, to pass unpuniShed
Cartel or no cartel, let it be understood that
no single Mort! ern prisoner passes out of
Southern hands alive while our captured citizen
soldier or civilian is in jeopardy from Yankee
tyranny and oppression in violation of the rules of
honorable warfare
Now Is the time for President Davis to show
that he Is III good earnest in his letter to General
Lee and the accompl nying "General Order" Our
victory over the enemy near Culpeper Court
Hors5 was evidently more of an affair than We at
first supposed 1t C be- Jacksons rapid tactics
told, a such tactics arc apt to do. Now is the
keep them. Hang every man of Pope's army
from the General down, until they find out the
necessity OF withdrawing their infamous order and
changing their infamous course
There Is delIcacy about this matter, and its
management Is, as a rule, and very properly, left
with the Executive, but in this case, Congress, as
the more direct representative Of the people,
ought also to take the matter in hand and give
the moral weight of its sanction to any measure,
nj bnw ~,
Commander-ln Chief may recommend, and if that
othcer be not decided enough let Congress take
upon itself the labor and the responsibility of de-
VlslnS and enacting all proper and necessary
measures
They lave been hanging our partizan rangers
and numbering our citizens, we had surplus of
some eight thousand prisoners. We have a sur
plus still. Let US give notice that we can hold no
agreement with people who violate all civilized
usagcs, and that all their prisoners in our hands
Will be strung up if they persist in their atrocities,
and our word for 1t, they will come to their senses
soon.- Wilmington Journal
CORRESPONDENCE OF GEN. LEE AND GEN.
uALLECK.-Ihe. correspondence between the
Confederate and the Federal Generals on the sub,
Joct OF oura@cs pcrpetrated and threatened against
Southern citizens has been published. The reply
OF the Federal General is evasive and unsatisfac-
tory. 1t now remains for the Confederate Gov
oi"tIeht ~ PiotecI us people Dy the only means
In Its power, and that is, prompt and effective
retaliation. Authority should be given so far as
relates to all future outrages, to the Confederate
officers nearest the scene where these barbarities
are practlced, tG try and punish the offenders on
the spot, without the tedious and expensive pro-
cess OF transporting them to Richmond In the
war Of the Revolution, the notorious British COM |
mander Ferguson, pursued a course precisely
similar to that Of Pope, and Col Campbell re- |
t"liated at once by trying and hanging, upon the
very hill where the battle occurred the
prisoners taken from Ferguson, who had been en-
gagged in these outrages, The British Govern !
men never ventureG to resist that act of lust and
wholesome retaliation We should proceed at
once to have reparaton for the past and as to the
future, give our military commanders authority to
retallate at once upon the perpetrators of similar
Dispatch.
bsas- a great number of young men are daily |
arriving in Richmond from Baltimore. They
represent that city as under reign of terror
he draft has spread utter CONSERVATION amono all
classes Southern sympathizers are, of course
hiied with horror by the prospect of being forced
into the ranks; the Unionists who have been
clamoring for vigorous prosecution of the war
are casting about how to evade the draft and save
their persons.