The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-06-09
YANKEE BARBARISM.


The following statement was sent to US for publi-
cation by highly respectable gentleman in Eastern
North Carolina, who knows the facts of which he
,neaks. and who has been in the war since the first
gun was fred
On the recent expedition in pursuit of the Yam
loes who surprised the seth n G. Reg't, we found
two aged widows residing at Core Creek. One of
them was near seventy, the other near sixty After
losing their husbands and all their children, the
bereaved sisters Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Evans) had
come together in their old age in the hope that the
last moments of long and afflicted lie might be
snent in peace. But the Yankee vandals willPd
otherwise. OF their thirteen negroes, all were
carried off except an old bed ridden woman These
Yankee wretches stole every pound OF bacon the
old ladies had; all their flour and meal and ever
their bedding. towels, bed clothes. Kitchen utensils
soap, lard, &c. Their very Bibles and hymn
books carried eff and the last consolation of
religion taken from them. With pious forethought,
one of the old ladies had prepared her winding
sheet This the base scoundrels to pieces with
savage pxultation in her presence.
The furniture of the Core Greek Baptist Church,
near by, on deposit for safe keeping in the
house of the old ladies' All this stolen de-
stroyed and the church itself burned to ashes.
These facts. hundreds in Ransom's and Cookies
Brgades heard from the lips of these venerable
widows. Capt. Robertson. Navy Contractor, told
the writer of this that he had known them for thirty
years and that they universally respected for
AS mental retribution of heaven, the Yankee
Colonel who committed these atrocties was killed
by troops in the pursuit. He the author of
most of the house burning and plundering which
have desolated the country for twenty miles around
Newborn.
How strikingy do these facts rebuke the base
Re-constructionsts in this State Is the old
Union to be restored in the and groans of the
widow and orphan and in the blood of our. noble
sons! Are we again 10 take to bosnms the
house burning, church destroying i6dels who
found land as the Garden of Eden and have
converted it into desert! AS long as the memory
act and the heart feel emotion let their crimes
be forgotten and their atrocities never cease
TO excite the deepest adherence! The voices of
our murdered dead would cry out from their CORY
graves did we re-unite again with this of Ca
manches. Never, never, never!
"A RESTORATION UNION FOREVER MPos-
rrBLE-Under this caption the Fayetteville Observer of
the 4th inst has excellent article, one which we hope
every paper in this State and in the South will copy
Before the the Editors of the Observer and
true Union but they view the matter in its pro-
per light and good southern men, unaltrably op-
posed a reconstruction of the Union under any circum-
Next week will publish the Observers ar
tcle in full, as have only for the following
extracts:
THE admission (perhaps inadvertently into an in
fuental paper of communication in favor of recon
stuction surprised and grieyed us and induces
remind our readers that they keep before
their own minds and instil into the minds of their
IeighborS who may read and reec! the subject
f any such there be the great leading idea that the
Union IS orerer aissolUds restoration forever tmpos
BE
DEMONSTRATION would be end of the war; it
would rather be the beginning of interminable
Peace with the United State. can only be secured by
separation And that separation every dictate of hon
or of interest, and of humanity demands. God forbid
that we-hould ever again be united with people who
have so deeply outraged our every feeling and right
and whose intentions towards black as the
Internal regions.
"Let man, therefore, tolerate in himself or others
a thought of fatala policy as a reconstruction of
the old Union. The day for that is forever past. The
blood of our slaughtered sons and brothers upon q
hundred fields, from Bethel toNicksburg. cries out
from the ground against an idea SO fatal aud so base
n. c. TRooPs-Maj. VIM. Lee Davidson has
been promoted to Lieut. Colonel of the 9TH Ree-
H. &c