Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-06-05

the history OF these Zines may not repeat ltseif
in detail We refer to the 6endish details
such as uow have fearful and disgusting ex-
isteuce in the official reports of rebel body.
snatching and Sepoy cruelty after the battle of
Bull Run and the concealment of torpedoes
within the entrenchments, in docks, and in
bags Of provisions, at Yorktown, by the re
treating rebels. These are Accomplishments
O touch beyond the education of the Indians,
who, while be scalps the victim of his rife or
tomahawk, usually depends upon agility and
personal powers when be meditates unusual
slaughter We are accustomed to hear of the
scalps in the wigwam Of the great warrior, and
likewise IS ornaments of bis belt but we neV-
er heard that he used the skulls of his victims
as drinking cups, or converted their bones in.
to ornaments. But as "our deluded southern
brethren" are the superior race on this conti-
Eeut, and practice these peculiar amenities in
the prosecution of war of their own making,
we presume that the moral defeat pertains to
the uDtutored savage.
We of the North have always heard of the
South as the home of chivalry and the chosen
abode Of Honor. That is to say Southern
men have so vaunted the South, and Northern
men with Southern principles-not yet ex-
tinct Us q race--have reiterated the boast
Our democratic exchanges for years have serv-
ed up these doctrines in their coluu MS, ,and not
all of them have ceased to reseason and warm
up the old staple democratic editorials up to
this day. They still denomiDate these body
snatching butcherers of the wounded and unre-
ssting "our southern brethren" 1t CRATES
somewhat upon our untutored and unrefned
northern ears, but that is probably the effect
of prejudice, or abotionism, or sume other of
the many excuses laid to our charge by these
democratic editors and their southern breth
ren." 1t may be " chvalry" to violate flags
Of truce, to bayonet wounded men after bat
tie, aud to fire upon women and children for
saluting the old flag, as was done at New Or
leans but We don't see it. 1t may be mark
Of superior refinement to exhume the todies of
soldiers and to convert their bones into finger
rings and their skulls into drinking cups but
We are unable to recognize it as snch. It may
be honorable to steal and lie without bound
however, such morality and honor is not COM
monty nculcated in northern pulpits or Sunday
schools. 1t may be cited n further evidence
of the infdelity aud general degeneracy of the
North, as charged by democratic editors aud
politicians for years, but We cannot help
that.
But this is the kind of chivalry and honor
which fuds favor in the eyes of the democracy
vi the WM B. REED and GEO N. WHARTON
school and such is the product of the supe-
nor refinement of which they have been the
noisy defenders in past years. With these
monsters in human form they are in full COM
munion of sympathy. For these uuequaled
barbarians they ask, and hope to receive such
merciful imnunities as they refuse to those
who deny the divine right of the Democracy
to rule or ruin. True, this is not without some
show of reason. For the standards of rebel |
lion was reared by democrats the forts, ar
seDals, naVy-yards, mints, custom houses and |
other public property, were stolen by demo
Gratis the ruling spirit of the rebellion is
democrat the rebel Congress and Cabinet are
composed Of democrats aud lastly, the rebel |
army, which is guilty of gross barbarities
heretofore enumerated, is mainly composed of
democrats. and entirely oficered and led on by
democrats. No wonder, then, that certain
northern editors aud politicians are ever ready
with an apology for these democratic brethren
OF theirs 1t is really family affair with
them. and family pride demands all the apo
g;es and defence essayed By the editors and
pamphlcteeES aforesaid.
We cannot but think. however, th at there is |
hut one good and sufficient cause of all the |
unparalleled barbarism practieed by the reb- !
els prior to and during this war That moth |
ing!but the loog indGlsed habit of domineeriug
over interiors IN station, and the habitua con.
tempt for tie sauctity of personal rights as
pertaining to the black slave, could have en-
gendered such a barbarous spirit, we suspect |
cannot be gaiusayed SIavery,in view of the
utter extinction Of which, arises all this blath-
er about constitutional rights on the part of |
our degenerate democratic publieists, alone,
Of all social conditions. is adequate to the
production oe srch nau1eless brutality
system which scouts at the Sanctity of |
- ss.As violations and habituay disregards
rights of dependents, is equal to
of any degree of savagery con.
IT.,
strike down this infamous
d sa 81 D arsaScll9gies for the re-