Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-06-11
THE STARVATION POLICY.

II has been Known for week. that the Federals
State as we'll others destroying all farming imple
men1s Rezing all provisions and preventing planting
of crops with The vowed determination to starye the
pie INTO submission. We supposed it might be possible
al his was the vindictve cruelty Of cowardy
andeY, who vented his SPITE women and children But
it 10 that orders to that effect have ben issued
from LnChlng department. In Phillips, ChicOt, and
her countless where the Federas have foot hold they
and Burning all the fences, pows and farming
utens Is they find. They destroy the property Of widows
we'll male citizens They are sending thousands
of women and children within lines destroying all the
provisions they find AID preventing the people from
ing Out OF many cases reported TO u.s. IS one OF widow
ed lady, at whose house LUMBER OF ocera ana men can
d aud demanded their DINERS After having eaten they
told her that they orders seize all her provisions,
destroy ali the farming and fences and
aer from having crop raised They left her week sup
DIV of prov only In Phillips county they xiii every
mich cow shoot every hog down fruit
In Chicot county, they have made clean sweep.
This civilized warfare ia war upon women and
children Il is a wholesale robbery and national murder.
Yet SO timd has been policy that have let these
o Sq rns into boats We have paroled
hands and were a
until has ceased to be virtue until has
and the military authorities in this crisis We cannot anci
pate kbut enemy violating all ru!ea OF warfare
md wapinp barbarous and fend b war should be treat
ed according to the Of civilized war; absurd Sure
y these should be hung as soon as caught have
nag They are warning upon women and children, ant
when caught their esPtors would be Jqs6a6e IN killing
AS strenuouousy and sternly have resisted al at
tempts 10 make this black flag the enemy de
temined to drive it, They organizing insured
tios in South Caolina they have sent negro Amy in
Florida they organizing black regiments in Tennessee
they execute parzans who fire boats guerrilla
here &ud they declare for examination
Re not only Of men, but OF women and Child en-.
This being the acknowledged policy of The federals,
Incomes OF life aid death that should rails
everything thai will sustain lie ia those of the cour
ry be ond reach Of the federals that should
economical the of breadsu; close all distlerie
H. ana Lod the distlers public enemies, and cutivat
fields and gardens their utmost limit:
H has been demonstrated that the C1nfederacy cannC
y he whipped, and if do dIty, show the
that we starved. ne should prepare ward
this blow and bod those to strict accountability who
m | 10 in1ict it upon
y A BREACH OF TRUST CAsE-If the instances OF Il
al tyranny exercised by the United States Government
tie victims Of its displeasure which equer
called upon to record, should meet the eye of
French people, they might suggest the advisabiity
= demanding the ponderous key of the Bastle in
be glass case IN Washington, and the placing Of it in
y, hands of some more appropriate custodian-say
King of Dahomey no better recipient could be four
ed In his cabinet it would retain much Of the sign
ed canoe attached to the occasion of its original pesen
he tior 70 the United States Government, than in
rs, washington Patent Office, where it now hangs p
CT hans the mournulest political emblem that could
Ter discovered in the whole domain of Liberty, Equal
m Erotnrnity -