The mountain Democrat., 1863-10-17
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The county xas informed 3IA4&
tant General Thomas . short time dnco
that he had established . camp ef negro
soldiers on Island No. Ten, on the -
issippiriver. The exploits Of that bfanch
Of the military service are recorded in our
ftelegrapaGUS aaspatches Of yesterday.-Fif.
teen negro soldiers armed and uniformed.
visited the house Of planter in the neigh.
borhoOd, killed him and his father, aud
threw their bodies into the water, threw
his little son alive after them, bound two
yound girls together and threw them in-
to the river, and after concentrating the
sum of all inIquities upon the person Of
the eldest daughter, sent her after the
rest TO . watery grave.-They made short
work Of defenceless and unarmed fami.
ly, did these brave disciples Of Adjutant
General Thomas negro theory. Six an.
offending and harmless individuals were
butchered with all the savagery the brut.
ish instincts could suggest Children
were massacred as only the red skin
6ends in the Northwest. have maSsaersA
them, and hapless maidenhood was out
ragged as no beings on the face Of the earth
except negroes can outrage it.
This was one of the regiments the ven.
erable Thomas boasted Of 1t consisted
Of twenty or twenty-five negro soldiers,
as do tho majority of his twenty regi-
ments. OF ;biS twenty or twenty-five
negro soldiers, fifteen have been guilty Of
the most horrible crimes human beings
are capable Of, and the rest are undoubt.
edly ready to embrace the first opportunl.
ty leading to. the same end. To whom
does the responsibility belong? Does It
belong to AdjutAnt General Thomas, who
was the too willing instrument, or to the
Administration who conceived and sane.
toned the creation of these household
desecrating fends9 In proportionate
measure, it rests with both. The Adia-
tant General is weak sister, whose des.
erts may be requited by hanging between
the chiefs of his chosen band Of black
savages. The Administration aud itS
bounding Abolition supporters are wor-
thy Of more refined justice the execra-
ton of every citizen who has life to
save, or q son or daughter to protect
This Is but one Of the numerous instan.
ces in which negro soldiers have fulfilled
their destiny. Its closeness to our lines
has rendered it more than appalling in it's
CHASTITY details, but it is not more ghastly
than hundreds of other deeds of like ma.
ture which will never, never be known
to the world. In the tumult and confu-
sion Of war, individual wrongs are lost
sight OF, and yet these individual wrongs
are like this which has come so vividly
to notice-total devastation of every in.
stinct of humanity perfect abandonment
to ribald license and cold blooded butch
cry. 1t is with these materials that fan
atics would light the torch of servile in.
surrection, knowing. as well as they know
existence itself, that its brute strength
will sweep humanity to one common ruin,
leaving in its train only violated woman.
hood and the blood of infants crying
aloud for retribution. And yet they per.
sist in schooling this brute power to
know itself and use its strength. Upon
them, who possess understanding 10
know the consequences, and not upon
the animal instincts which acknowledge
no mental control, be the responsibility
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