Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-08-31
The Yankees in the South

The Yankees in the South.
A letter from Morton to the Mississip
plans tells the following:
I have just learned reliable news fiom
Natchez. The comparatively mild rule
observed for a brief period by the enemy
have vanished, and given place to the
usual Puritan tyranny. and oppression.
The damnable spirit that prosecuted
Baptists and Quakers, and burned inofen-
sive women as witches, in New England, I
in olden time, seems to breathe and burn
in the vile defendants of that pestilent
race, in Natchez. Neither rights of per-
sons nor of property are respected; mel
ther age nor sex commands protection or
respect but is indeed, an incentive to
the assaults of those Northern brigands.
The discovery ofthe fact that the people of
Natchez were sound to the core to the
C~onfederacy, unclaimed the demon of
Yankee Persecution, and now the citizens
are suffering untold misery. They are
dragged from the. house of God, while in
the act of divine worship, to the Provost
MarshaPs office, there TO take the oath
of allegiance to Lincoln and if they re-
fuse, they are dragged, literally dragged
to leathsome dungeons. Their servants |
are melted to deeds too dark for utter
ance, and the common soldiers OF the
enemy protected in the preparation of
the most hellish crimes. Great God is
there an arm In Mississippi that would
refuse to strike under these circunstan.
ces?
From Vicksburg the information reach
oC nc that tho onanu looin,r froya
800 to 400 a day by a fatal disease,
which it seems the Yankee surgeons don't
understand, and which Grants Medical
Director very sagely says is caused by
heat and fatigue. 1t is evidently Fs6ris
COngesti0G, or congestive brain fever,
lie which generally and speedily proves fa.
ID tai to those who it attacks. | learn from
&c Father Olando, the pastor of the Church
+ at jackson, who has just returned from
of Vicksburg, that the enemy and negroes
+. are dying by thousands. 1t is fatal in
err almost every instance; and in vain have
d. their surgeons sought for an antidote,
but SO far it has hafled4thsir- skiA.-IE
g, many instances the victims have beer
I'd struck down in the streets and expired il
a few minutes. The disease makes its
appearance by q painful enlargement o
)r. the larynx, which is followed by Il pa
or ralysis of the tongue, and if the victim
lives.twelve hours he will recover. H,
90 tells me that ON last Tuesday three hun
'" dred and fourteen soldiers died in tn,
50 hospital at Vicksburg, and one hundred
M and thirteen negroes. The Yankees ar,
40 DESERVING by the wholesale, and number
:. of them nave. come into our lines and de
livered themselves up as prisoners rath
in er than trust themselves to tender mer
A cies of Yellow Jack, to the effect of hicl
h. they attribute the great mortality anon
their troops. DR.. Hewitt, Grants Med
ical Director, has issued a circular Stain
a that the disease was not the yellow fevel
ers but the soldiers do not believe it, and al
the fleeing for their homes to escape tia
dreadful scourgo.
md | saw a gentleman from Jackson la.
led night. The negroes left in the city a,
very i~Rsolent, and cannot be made to G
Ike. any species of work. The kdies a.
ell, cooking and washing for themseive
and hands that never touched my kin
, OF of work heavier than embroidery or IN,
sic, are busy in the drudgery of nous
SO, hold work.
The army hereabouts grows apacA.
OF The men are returning in crowds. Ye
terday's train br~ougheup two hundrs
and every day sees new additions
IKE. E%.stout. hearty and hopeful men, fallil
of into their proper places. These M
left here three weeks ago. broken aos
in mind and body; they return in go
health and cheerful spirits.
h. The country is much cheered at t
ID. arrival of the fourteen hundred We
Tennesseeans at Okalona for the purpo
lex, of joining the army. They are but t
Ike, first instalment of troops which the e
forcemeut of Lincoln's draft will give
kin the ~Confederacy, from other States tn
mp brave old Tennessee.
The weather is hot but clear al
5 ) cheerful, like III prospects.
lge-
w.
=.