St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-06-05

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'' ',':''i %o:H197.3 II ! - .3a.g go; 4s.
sfse.Sl soasi,tSe, will create dis.ensiohs
III ong tAs rebels themselves. and greatly aid
ia bringing the leaders 10 justice, or in e1iliDg
ad.iiOuitiQnto ell future consl irstors. thai The
righ,eou indignation Of ~ insulted peopi. il
not 10 be rsckiessly invoked, and thai he who
does 20 must stake his I'LL on the issue. 1t will
serve in some slight degree 10 indemnify The
loyaltsx paying people otthe country tor the
immense sscrifces they ars compelled 70 make
for its preser vatiLr. - ~
i Reason on this question as re may, we will
find very dithrul! to convince the people Of the
loyal States that they must be stripped Of
their PROPERTY 10 pay expences Of = var for
which they ars III no way responsible, while
The arch oonspirators wlo have forced j, upon
them escape It's burdens. They belive iha.
every dollar worth Of property, re Il, personal.
and mixed, owned BY these men, should be At
once forfeited to the use Of The Government,
and spplisd,' as tsr g. viii 90, to tighten tho
bur den oftaxs.ion thus wickedly, snd wan on
!, thrust upon the country. 1t Is but just that
the ca e'iuinal should be made 70 ply the e1-
Pense incurred Tor his punishment. Sha:l these
creates, criminals tie world ever ssN be made
IN exception, Ir,ekin,idge, Toon,IGr, siid.ll
and many others Of the .. M. class in The South,
own large tracts Of land ip, ny own site. DO
you think the, people there will content edly
bear. the burdens ~ impose Or them when
they bee this property untouched .ky BY the
GUyelnR,en, Hhen return to my constit
uents. ana they Ask me- Why these lands were
Mt con6sieated, xll they he quite Satisfied
ri.h tAe answer, Il VAS afraid it would irri
tate and offend 'Mes>rs Breckinridee, Toom.s
& Co aud therefore rolled the whole burden
on YOU" .., al. 49,.
Four millions of people, who are loyal It
heart and would gladly have built our for,i6
cations. saved our soldiers many q weary day g
labor, and rel dered as the most Efficient aid.
have been told BY cur sctisas. it uot BY our
words, "you must stay with your rebel mas
ters aud support them, while they nadly strive
to overthrow TIE Go. ernmeat." !! Cur tender
ness has been for our snesiss; our severity
for our friends. Citizens Of slave States vhe
wanted to he loyal have been compelled 70
.vow themselves traitors in order to save their
lives und property, because traitors we're quite
as sure Of protection from the Government ~
10y q nen, Hhsress to avow their adhereace to
the Union was to pose themselves 10 the Loss
Of lifs anl properly from the enemy "a D..
Thus We have weekeptd ourselves and
strengthened our foes; discouraged loyal1y
and paid = premium 70 treason. All these aud
o thousand similar acts have been performed il
the name of forbearance and clemency What
has been the effect on those whom We have thus
sought to concil.te! Let their cosluct an
swer. Their savage fury seems to le just in
proportion to our leniency. Waging . war
against Government which has done them no
wrong, which they have felt only in ito bless
ings, and which, during whole year Of bloody
strife Las exhibited all the forbearance that =
weak, fond parent would extend to an erring
child, they have evinced u determination to
show to the world the utter baseness Of ingrat-
i.ude and the 6endishness of hate. Witness
scores of civilians and innocent women and
children crushed and mangled a, the Case IN
ade bridge. in Missouri! The bay. netting OF
wounded soldiers ON the battle field, ~ they
lay helples. and Begging for mercy! The en-
ployment OF the scalping knife Of the red saw
savages who employed them! The neglec,
and brutal murder Of prisoners who have fsll
en- int their hands! The treaoherous and
cold bluoded massacre Ut unarmed soldiers -,
Gusandotte! The cruel expatria,ion aud inhu.
man butchery Of thousands Of the citizens o
East Tennessee for their loyalty to the Union
The late act Of mingled feroci,y and eowardics
ut New Orleans. referred to bv Commander
Farragnt, when the retiring rebels shot down
| in the streets ''helpless women and childl er
for giving expression to the pleasure 1t wit
Messing the old aag!"
, These are only few Of tae ten thousand
| equally inhuman acts which have marked this
war on the part ofthe rebels. Surely this tall
Of barbarity would be sufficiently shocking il
confined to the living. but their ghoul like des
ecration Of the honored dead, as disclosed BY
| the JOINT committee on the conduct of the war.
is even more revolving and makes ole doubt
whether the perpetrators Of such acts a.,
brutes or demons. l. be- the l:lgsnce uf the
House while real . few extracts from ,hst re-
port. After ref rcing to The treatment Of oar
sick an. wounded on the field and in the hos
pitals, the committee say: D., j. ~.
.Revolting as these disclosures are, it, va.
| when the committee came t. examine witness
es in reference 10 the treatment Ut our heroic
dead that the fendish spirit Of the rebel leader
! was most prominently exhibited. Daniel Blk
| by, jr., of Washington testifies that he wen
! ont in company with Il. A. Smart. OF Cam
| bridge, Massachusetts, Y no went to search fol
the; b lily of his orsther, who fell st Black
burns Ford in action Of the 18Th of July
They found the grave. The clothes were ilen
tilted as those of his brother on account o.
some peculiarly in the make, for they had bee,
made by his mother: and, in order to identity
! them, other clothes made by her were taken
that they mi. ht compare them, '"r~
a. We found no head in the grave, snd n,
bones any kind-nothing but the clothes
and portions ofthe hesh We found the re
mains Of three other. bodies all together. Th'
clothes were there; some flesh was left. but n,
bones The vi ness also states that Mrs
Pierce Butler, who lives near the place. sait
that she had seen the rebels boiling portion. o
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