Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1862-08-15

IHE VANDALISM OF WAR.-The Richmond
Examiner OF the Goth has an article on the
destruction of private property by the two ar
mics IN front Of Richmond, in which the out
RACES Of the rebels on their own friends are
painted in quite as dark colors as those of the
northern vandas The Examiner saws -
After the battle Of Richmond. in which the Yankees
were driven thirty miles away people had oppur-
UNITY OF surveying he ground recently occupied by their
forces and with good great has been the cutlery
raised against them for the destruction II private
properly They have been justly branded as yanHals and
ROBBERS VINO ohghted the earth in their path like the
hordes Of AaricnO terms Of opprobrum have been ex
hausted in heaping abuse upon their nation and them
selves As we have said. we believe them justly entitled
to the abuse they have rcapfd On all the land
by them they have e nothing but portions II the DWELL
ngs. he forest trees and the solid earth itself fertile
and lovely country has been blasted by their footsteps
The rules Of civilized warare have been ignored and
neither he person nor the property Of private diydu
ais many N whom were non Combatans have been res
peetcd BY their wautonness and brutality they have
end themselves to the eternal hatred Of the people
OF the South and 20 lasting infamy among al civilized
nations All this is conceded and need be enlarged
upon.
But what will the people Of the South and the world
think when tell them that whilst the Yankee invaders
were laying waste tue land. destroying the crops and
bntcherng the stock q farmers the north " the
Chickahominy, our troops the who had rushed
To defend tom capture and spuation the capital Of the
cunederAcy, were engaged in precisely siniar bust
ness IN me country on the south side n that stream -
THIS would seem incredible but IL u.s. nevertheless sad
anu Illuminating lact, the truth Of which is susceptible N
ocular demonstration To day, a stranger travelling
over the devastated country lying between Richmond and
Cold Har or would fail tu distinguish where the lines
lately occupied b., grmy ceased and those Of he
KEGS began with the exception Of the farm occupied
headquarters by General Ire, and two or three other
farms occupi by the major generals under HIM the
whole country has been ruined aud utterly laid waste
We viii partirularize one instance where might as
easily cite hfty Col Robert Morris owns farm on the
Mechancsyie turnpike, four miles east Of this CITY Al
the time Of the falling back Of army from the PENN
sula ms place was we'll fenced and stocked, and proyid
ed with all the machinery usual on the farms ~ men Of
means No sooner was IL occupied by troops than
they apparently raiued by discipline any orders
from their officers, commenced the work of spoliaon
and destruction. They burnt up every panel II his
fence even To his garden pangi smashed his machine
fy and agricultural implements ransacked his garden
pulling up and destroying every growing thing, and
wound up their operations by entering his cabins and
stealing the negroes clothing In consequence Of this
"anton destruction Of everything perishabe the place
was LEFT a. bare and desoate il il had been occupied
by the whole Yankee army and inde d it in no respect
differed from farms actually occupied by them on the
opposite bank Of the Chickahominy"