New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-28
YRon GEN. srAuEL'S COMMAND
Tho Inevitable moseby-str"nge Policy 81
the Governmeut-now Rasiiy People
"a Wsshington are Prightened-Thc
I.enity shown Rebel symPnthirers-
Whit from Gov. Blair Of Michigan.

Prem Our Special COu..osnd.nL
FiIxyAI CouRTHouss, May Is. 1862
The continued presence and repeated ineursions OF
the guerrilla Moseby remind one Of the everlasting
singing and occasional singing Of mnsseto. lie
has been chased everywhere, has lost many Of hi'
bes. officers aud men, hiss himself been reported
killed wounded, and every thing but missing, but s
always turning up to annoy and disturb. INSTEAD Of
clearing the whole region Of everybody capable Of
bearing Arms, and fairly hunting this band Of ma
rsuders down a. QUO would wolves or foxes, the
Government keeps force along line running from
the Oceoqusn to tho Potomac tires ont and breaks
down horses by daily and nightly scouting parties,
and releases the bush ~hactsrs picketshooters and
.ethieyes, who are sent In NJ prisoners. The
very men who do all the injury they can, and are
captured while doing IT, are set loose again to con-
tinue theI numbering and stealing, aud TO laugh at
their liberhioTs. 80 .
Can any one wonder at the impossibility Of rid
ding the country Of ihese pests nnder such circum
,tspc<sl Hero 10 O fine body Of cavalry, under a
tried and experienced General, compelled 10 do
picket and scouting duty principally, because about
two hundred farmers aud citizens and low soldiers
band themselves together 10 ride over the country
laundering snd killing. With his command united
and left free 10 act, Gen. StsheI would soon rid the
country Of Moseby and bis gsn9 not by chasing
them out " return again, but by killing or capturing
them. A. It 10, the soldiers arc simply employed
watching this mus kso aud whom Uncovered be
bulle. away teforc any force can meet him.
People In Washington are too easily scared
Witness the recent tearing up Of tie psDking over
the Chain Bridge, and the placing OF battery st
Il Q Aqueduct Bridge, because an officer. nStHk
ttoops of his own command for Rebel, reported
that the enemy were IL L~esburg in force. That
ivht the cavalry In town stood ~ horse while We
out from eighteen 10 twenty live niles IA 'front.' siolt
10 soupdly Us usual
Iii, safe to assert that all the inhabitants Of this
region are enemies. Why not treat them ~ such
aud obge them to 10 South with their frisnds or
North 10 some PRISON There cannot be any SOUND
neutrality Ia country occupied by hostile armies
Lot us bring little plain, practical common sense
into roauist and look az subjects In their proper
Egbt. 1t would be far better TO give the Rebels
f'ty or hundred thousand men by driving into
their lines those who symp sthiLe with them, than
to have them In our midst as protested friends bat
7, ally secret ensu lea. Let this policy DO adopted
ANA then We can tell where We stand. There viii
be 90 many more hungry people for the Southern
Government 10 fed, aud eventually this question IL
going 10 be settled by General Starvation. When
ever our cavalry 70 into tho villages OF Prince W IL
liam snd other counties hereabout the first comPni
ia that Of stsrvs alton and suffering for clothes snd
medicines. The people are asked, why do yon DOT
appeal TO tho Confederate Govsrnment for AID iSIho
answer ID, that tue people there cannot even take
care Of themselves. How can you respect or uphold
\ Government which cannot feed or clotbe 700, can.
no, tske care OF ito wounded Sick protect you
from your enemies should We choose TO capture or
Iii you you are good Union people leave here
and ~ North and you will bnd friends who Will aid
and assist you. Your titc to suy estates you may
possess will b much more secure than by remaining
her. a suspected II not known traitor. Your cor
respondent ventures lhs opinion that similar arga.
uen,s III NJ lsast these misguided and neglected
people thinking, and that thinking may produce a
reaction thai hall b troublesome 10 Tho conspra'
tors In RehnoSd.
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