New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-09-19
n.RE.wIT:Es ~ WAR.

III, Daily Mars. IN 'hc cour.' ~ an cs.lr CO..
b. The Harba.i'.r. of War" saws.
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la,, heor giving o. r' S.Hi.."
- 1ho Nan. tloagh 90 ail inien's and pur-
pose. o. Rebel orrnn. !. published IN New-lori
and edited los D,mocmuc Member Of the la,i
and Of thc neat I niDn Coug.r.s. IT, atscrl .onr
viii therefore BE- accepted in Europe, not % the
Rebel calumnics they truly are. bat as tHioa
admissions H. behalf, therefor. Of our couu'
try. hcr defenders, and OF truth. ~ brand the
assertion placed above IN italics A. a wanton,
wicked, atrociou, oalumny, and demand IT,
specific rctraciion. 1t j. not merely lie with
circumstance, but lie In pred hytrcason, such
a. should subject iis author and bis hnckcsn moi
merely 10 disgrace but Ia punishment.
Lawrence wac an interior city, totally un-
armed and ungauisoned, ana possessing 10
shadow Of strategic or military importance, ul-
tcrly unsuspicious oi danger, when Rebel
guerrilla band, raised entirely and lar within the
Union lines, among "A population ostenAbly
LOYAL, in region where no Rebel flag had openly
loated for months, stole ncross the Missouri
border unobscryed, and, being well mounted
and moving rapidly by night, fell upon the sleep
ing inhabitanis just at daylight, surrounded
their several dwelling, dragged or drove out
the minutes. and murdered in cold blood every
adult male, and then burned the houses, aficl
plundcring them of all that could be carried or
There was no resistance, no military array in de-
icl.sc OF the doomed city-noihing but the basc
and cowardly murder Of civilians dragged from
| their beds.
Now, if the Union forces have ever burned
" several Southern cities " under circumstance,
riyalug these in " atrociiy ard barbarity," Tia
Mars would have given names aud dates III
stead Of dealing in vague geno.alitics. IL is in
definite because it is consciously false. Its only
approach TO q specification imports that Charles
ton was shcllcd unwarraniahly by Gen. Gill
more. But Charleston is strongly fortified
seaporl--a place of the greatest strategic I'M
portancc. and had been formidably blockadc'
! Tor many months, and earnestly bescgcd 10
some weeks before shell was thrown into 1t
1t had not merely been forcwarned by Gen. Gill
more Of the shclling, but it, commander ha'
publicly ordered non-combatants to quit IT day
before. SO the Welshman's parallel between
Monmouth and Macedon ran on all Tours II
comparison with any that can be Instituted be
tween the sack of Lawrence and tho Smelling o
Charleston.