The New York herald., 1862-03-18
BURNSIDE AND GOLDsBORoUGH's PROCLA.
NATION.
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[From the Richmond Dispatch March 1877
As soon az the Yankees got foothod Southern soil
their leaders issue proclamation in which they enter
tain with description of their character and purposes
According to their account of themselves they
the most humane and honest people in the world, and
have no intention of interfering with the property
rights OF body not even with their lives If they will
get out of their way Burnside and Godsborough say Of
themselves and the murderous and maraudng crew,
whose hands are stepped in Southern blood-''We
Christians as we'll as yourselves and profess know
full well and 10 feel pro ondly the obligations Of
the character Ii they had not said this should
tainy never have discovered il from their conduct We
have it from an eyo witness that they committed all sorts
OF depredatons on Roanoke Island they have every
where else where they have obtained footing. They
say:-'Ths Southern leaders have imposed upon your
credulty by tong you Of wicked aud dabolical
tenons our part Of desire to destroy your free
dom, dsmoish your property, liberats your slaves
injlre your women, and such enormities-all Of
ious, bu, utterly and wilfully false."' Perhaps
the veracous Burnside company would have us believe
that the war did not begin with proclamation Of
"Bsaaty and booty" in New York; that the women
when the soldiers left that city, did invoke each of
them to bring back tho head Of Southern man. and
that tho New York Tribune dill not declare that the war
should not end till Southern were driven from their
homes and were compelled to look upon their wives
children famishsd aud in rags If he says all this Is
falsehood he must charge it upon the Now York papers,
which contained these statements, and not upon the
southern leaders Perhaps he will also deny that
Northern soldiers on their way TO Washington declared
that they did not intend TO leave unpOiluted house
hold in all Virginia. and that the letter bags seized by
our army at Manassas were full OF letters invoking them
10 this hcsh treatment Of women. Whether he denies
1t or not, the fact be proved by better than
hmsslfand by the letters themselves which still
main ia southern hands; when he denounces false
hood their intention TO kidnap Southern slaves he
the fact that the slaves OF every secessionist
have been taken from him by Incolns orders whenever
the. Northern army have been able 10 do IL. When he
denies that property Is 10 be demolished, ho has
heard Of Southern houses and barns set fire.
OF wholesale Conscation acts When he that IL
is ridiculous laschood' that the Yankees desire
destroy freedom, he Is ignorant of Fort lafayette
Fort Warren and other Yankee bas,iles, and knows
anIrt
who have been lately torn from their homes 10 Join the
long procession OF exiles from Their native ani TO
Yankee prisons. Burnside AYERS that tho desoating
has been brought upon your State North Carolina
by comparatively few bad men ia your midst. In
nusnced infinitely more by the worse passions Of human
nature than by any share or elevated reason, they
stl urging you asray TO gray their unhoy passions -
The man that wrote this knew ull wcl that Moth Caro-
lina like Virginia, never dreamed OF leaving the old
Union till she was driven out by Lncolns proclamation
calling for army OF IS 600 men and that the
gan by The squadron sent by the tyrant 10 REIN
force Fort sumter. He might also know, IL he knew
snythng Of Southern sentiment that the leaders
behind the people in the energy and hre Of their
sstance to Northern invasion Who is IL that has hlsd
these armies which the Northern journals pretend
are larger than their OWN Is 1t not an army o.
volunteers, composed Of the people, in which
every Southern family has representative ami some
rs many twenty mothers giving up their darling chill.
dren and wives their husbands aud urging them to die
rather than permit the subugaon OF their native sud'
II the South had an abundance Of arms there would
day be million OF volunteers in the field. Who has
clothed this army, and provided them with all the
NnO taken tnein INTO pri.
vato houses and nursed them when sick they were
their children. The peoplcl Never there a
movement profoundly and universally q popular
movement the Southern of defence. Lat us tell
Mr. Burnside that If the people whom he considers tho
dupss Of wicked leaders had had their way after the
battle OF Manassas in which no and other Yankee gene
rails made such excellent time, he would not now be
vaporng on the coast Of North Carolina. The battle
would have been followed up, Washington seized, Lincoln
and his Cabinet either caught or Gagged Maryland
cipaed, and the North invaded II he does not know
he ought to know that 1t Ia because the wicked South
leaders have marked out rigid defensive policy
that the North has not been made TO taste the sweets
| Of that war which they have brought upon The
| South, aud that il the universal sentiment Of the
Southern people had been carried out by their govern
ment the wretches who have invaded US would have
been made before this time TO pay compound interest
with Ore and sword for every insult 10 Southern soil
every Southern roof tree destroyed, and every drop
Southern blood which has been shed
Burnside and Godsborough consider men 10 be ain
fuenced by the worst passions Of human nature wh,
revolt at the political and commercial domination &C III
| North, and who do not consider lankceism he m
pure, benign aud unsclsh Of human institutions Bu
from that opinion the southern people der. They hat
from their hoart Of hearts tho whole fostering mas
OF hypocrtica, cruel and bloody invaders The ony dis
tinctOn between them aud their leaders is that tn
leaders for deence the people for aggression
the leaders for independence only the people from th
Potomac 10 the Rio Craude for liberty aud vengeance