, 1862-07-15

the CONDUCT OF CEN. mitchell.

the CONDUCT OF GEN. mitchell.
His Infamous Order to Give up Negroes
to0Wners when Called For.
The negro catching proclivities Of General
Mitchell, and the hatred thereof by his whole
army are well kno IN to the public. The fol- |
loving extracts from letter written by q mem- |
ber Of the 9th (Hecker) Ill, regiment, which |
has been under Gen. Mitchell, to friend In
this city, dated Scamp Battle Creek, June
25tb, 1862, will be read with interest;
ssOur boys that have been near Chattanooga
are full OF praise about the enthusiastic Union
feeling that prevails among the people which
live ali over the country they passed through.
tits even true that the people twenty-five
miles from Chattanooga presentend the 37th
Indiana Regiment Tint IVES along with OUTS,
with handsome Union flag. This is again
proof that wherever the reign Of king cotton
fullest glory, and confirms the opinion I indi-
fectly expressed in my Last letter to you,
that the political, or social principles Of ma
ton or section Of o nation-if not entirely
created bg its material and pecuniary interests
are at least subject to them But King cot
ton is at present surely in sad h1, and ne
hope his yassal, "slayery' also. Imagine the
| soldiers Of our Union, trampipg aud bustllns
on his proud domain. Don't all this forbode
| soon dethronement and total forfeit
Surely when this is accomplished, the
| whole country Ehall make him him bis most
tumble and obed1ent servant But his vassal,
his most sneaking aud fawDing servant,
slavery, must be entirely crushed out and
banishsd, and i this Is not done, it is no use
to crush ont this Internal serpent Of rebellion,
| fer slavery is the head OF It, and that will
always produce again during existence,
BesiGee, slavery, y hlie the war Is raging, Is q
sharp weapon in the handR Of our enemy,
and it is generally acknowledged prin-
ciple, which I Eecouect to have read
on for the sake Of peace, and that 1t must be
the task OF the btliigerent to damage his op-
ponent rs much as possible, in order to take
from hin the means Of warfare md to check
mate him. This principle has been ackno*-
ledged and adopted, too, by all honest and
able generals of I'LL times, as eau be read in
the histories of wars. But some Of our gen
ra1s don't seem to know this, and blindly Shut
their eyes to things that must appear, even to
the one-eyed, plain and obyions. Tney not
only do not consider it their duty to take
from the enemy the weapon Of slavery, but
degrade and lumiliate themselves to be the
nly1BidOns Of the slave poEer, aud faWninglY
doa1l that is in their power to catch and re-
turn their slaves. The following is a cory Of
an order Of Gen. Mitchell, and shows you
what principles this man entertains in reg 4rd
! to slayery;
HEADQUARTERS 81 DIvIsIoE.
CANT ANDREW JACKSON, March II, lS62- I
| GENERAL ORDER No. T9-In accordance With OF.
deIs from headquarters Of the department Of the
Ohio all the fugitive =lasea. or ncsIoes suspected
n hA1y mn in r. mar nf *ha n 4 Il
ten, will he at once arrested and held at brigade
headquarters. end the headquarters ofthe different
dctac: ments ip tie division not btigaled until l.
o'clock H. oftO-mOrroW.
II IL that time the owners OF their agents thai
call for them the negroes uiA Be delireTxaup, ons
iJAeeessa7y tie 4d,'a0nts 7riN BE- protecfed from
| hd,m and nolextation II not called for, the nc
gsoes will be released and erpeiIedjfom the sncap
Hatnts.
In future no fng1t1ve ela7e will be allowed to eu
ter or remain within the lines CT the third division
p efdes Of B:is, Gen. Q. N; mitchell.
The abeye order makes 10 difference betweal
tects the black property rights Of both &
| 1ine sight, that.)
When the order Wis first issued, We had bu
few negroes that had joined lis in Missouri
we were therefore exempted from the di:
l. Agreeable consequences which would haE
G the order. Shortly after, the act Of Con3re=
; concerning fngitiyes that found refuge With
I. the lines OF our army Was passed, and unde
l. its protection We accepted Us mauy fugitive
as We could feed and usctully employ, with th
>. intent to make men Of them. We considere
; Congress q higher superior Of ours than an
j., general, and thought that the orders Of a
- generals as being subject to Congress woul
be at once null and void if they were in tt
;, least incompatible with acts that Congress b.
passed.
=. r. to the act ofCongress, but instead OF repud
atjrg it, he last week sent orders to the ditIe
a. cit regiments Of bis division, that they shou
1t comply with WITH, II farth~ith i5 We were ;
:. one j. C. Hull, Lieut.. Col. of the 37th Ini
IL commanding at that place, came into o
bands. Our officers, with indignation and d
gust, refused to obey the order, in mentionil
20 the word slave, and Was sent back to the So
Hull with the instruction that we had ]
ID slares. the colored men in our lines being fr
Ia | nj n. Said Hull, being q fawning hireling oft
-, shareholders, used now every sneaking mea
. that were in his power, in oder to serse
n ard beleaguered his Office ali the day, narki
IS our position and strength, and -thareby e1pt
r; n; ing is tothe danger that information be Civ
eo to The enemy. Very often the rascal Il
en- came with his yellow raecals to OUT camp,
d. order to seize any negroes that might be
~ cognized as having belonged to one of the
~ But in order to prevent disturbances su
an action would rot have passed without il
ier wchid our negroes. One morning our camp y
no alarmed BY the lamentable and doleful cry
Jul place from whence the cry was hea
by ne asccrtained that an old, gray-haired u
Of latto, having by order Of his master applied
nj. the ecoundrel Hull for the return Of q Lit
u fugitive boy that had found refuge in
NJ OF thu regiments, the 18th Illinois, and hsg
lay received The boy from this scoundrel Was 90
icc to tie him on mule, as The boy used The
most resistance to prevent bis being carr
10 back into bondage His cries could Ii
lg: moved stones, but the sconndrel Hull co
tor see and hear them without being moved.
md boys were enreged to the utmost. HapI
nv the road that the old fellow with his boy
en- to pass, Was occupied by pickets from
- regiment. Some Of our boys immedia1
,+rr vent out to the road, and when the old C
; f u approached, they gave him resp=cta
,ple again. Ibey brought him into our camp
the ecountirel Hull did not have conr
ent enough to take him from US again.
yed Alter be found that all bis efforts to deg1
,rty us to njggcr-catchers were in vain, he brou
lem heavy charges against our major, that acte
Ia unity with DR.. Wagner, nohIy and homes
rul- Both these men manly and firmly refused
fur do acts that would bring shame and dlsg
upon them and the regiment, but at the
70 a time used all possible means to calm and 6
i Of pose the excited and enraged tempers Of
ues- boys. Before Hull could prefer his miser
Vi q charges against our gallant major, we
? of c, wed marching orders, and when we cam
the Huntsville orr officers proceeded to Nit
In order to deliver their swords. Nit
$ to thereupon flew into raging fury and vi
Au- not accept them, demanding that bis or
the should be executed. Our officers refused
5hts wanted to resign Internationally. Nit
Lh,t then, after long raging and rantiug, sent t
rec | off 10 the regiment, promising to accept
lrily designations il they Would tender them. !
aSes we came to the regiment, the other of
Eed with the exception ofthree, after having
the whit had been our troubles at once rest
to resign too.
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End, a tanaotan Vpanaon'
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!, 900 ;or-n.1 IN tha f7,,oa,a and hr far The
widely circulated Of any British Anne
Gen. sheet. It has been steadily fair if not
such lively friendly to the Union, while its Il