Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-09-23

Dr.. Backus. The Wel-knoWn Union clergyman
Of a Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. This
reverend gentleman pays large taxes on property
in the Bnitsd States but upon being asked u
lls had property in Virginia. and answ5ring in
the affirmative, he WAS required 10 make out
list Of il that it might be taxed also. Oa pre-
ssnting It TO The official he made the remark shat
il scanned rather hard that he should pay taxes
on property from which he derived 10 income.
do was sErested ON charge of reasonable Ut
tersncss," confined ia a small room with ak
others, kept there for several days was tried, but
allowed TO employ no counsel. II he attempted
to speak for himself Don Piatt, the worthy tool
Of his prototype, Gen. Seheuck, shook bis Est
in bis face, cursing him, aud calling bin a fool
and lisr On Sunday, between one and two
O'Clock, P N this ven0rsbs minister, sixty
three years of age, was marched down under a
bToiling sun, with gang Of dsserters, to Fort
McHenry, = distsues of bstTesH two and lhrsa
miles from tbs Gilmore house FWhen be reached
there hs was so utterly exhausted that be drop
ped 10 Tie earth, where ho was suffered to be-
without s moTsel OF food or q drop Of water, till
The following meruing. Wen may we eEclaim,
as we read Of the treatment Of this grRy-hsircd
preacher Of the Gospel, Goa, Christianity,
where is thy blush Z"
If We tura to the treatment of wounded Dris-
oneTs in our hospitals, shame must mantle our
cheeks when Fort Delaware s brought to our
recollection. Between ten and eleven thousand
are there confined, and these have been dying
at tho rsle-o Of from seven TO fifteen per day, be-
cause compelled to drink the brackish ditch
water, which insures disease and almost CERTAIN
dssih. Such strong representations have beer
made by Federal surgeons of the brutality of
this measure that some water is now daily
brought from the Brandywine, though NOT naar
enough to supply the prisoners. There is not a
l.
sick and wounded prisoners are only supplied
with army rstions-hsrd tack and fat, salt pork.
''lf thine enemy hunger, feed him with hard
tack, and il ne thirst, give him ditch water to
drink, - is the Administration version of our
SsYiour's words
Who can ever paint the fsagful sHferings Of the
Confederate wounded ct Gettysburg, where they
lay in po;ls Of water on the Battlefield, with no
shelter save little canvas stretched up0a up
rights, psTohed with thirst, furnishing for food, |
snd deliri0us from unattended wounds Oar
New YORK DHpeIs religious and ssculant, told /
of their sutt5fingB with shudderiuEs Of horror |
but stated, as an excuse, that our own enor-
nous losses required even more than 81 our 4
surgeons IN attendance, and that Gen. Lee LETT I
only four surgeons and few nurses in care of I
his five ihonsEnd wounded men. Let them /
taks pains 60 get a. the truth, and they viii sg-
certain that ne detailed fifty surgeons, with one
RuIss Tor oTeTy hyo OF hls wounded; and let it |
be known that these nurses were actually I
marched off 10 swell the ranks of prisoners
Should hey not have been considered non-coul-
bs,ants by all the rules OF war Or, If cap
tGrod as prisoners, might they not, st l3ysl have
been allowed to asEuage the anguish Of shsir
wounded comrades till such lime Is they could
be removed to the hospitals prepared for them
Is it part Of the Government policy 10 let ssls
sick and wounded die, that they may never
sgsih swell the ranks of their fees In the
Baltimore jail eight hundred aud City men were
TO take the cold stone hsqgiug IS
their only bsd, till the Federal surgeon stated
that they would inevitably be disabled by rheu-
matism Tor lie if this course we're continued.
There are some bright spots in this picture Of
wrong, injustice and sin, and yet We scarcely
dsTe 70 direct attention to them, lest they, too
should lese their sunlight and become involved
in gloom. At Chester, Pennsylvania, and at
Dsvid's Island New YsTE, the sick and wound
cd prisoners ere allowed comforts and even deli
cacies. What can cause the diffsrencol Would |
that we might believe that the disgraeeful rest-
nent Of cur Confederate prisoners might agise
from individual corruption and not from the
of whose sins We, as a reprczenta-
live people must besr the Punishment. Bul the I
matter needs proDing. There is something
rotten in the State of Denmark"
A NEW ESGLkGDER.