Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-06-11
rF,om the Mobile AdvsrtIler and Refs .sr.
YANKEE PRISONERS.

Two hundred Yankee prisoners, captured at Ray
mond were here day or two, en- route for Richmond.
We regret 70 say that in modified form some Of the
sicklg sentimentaty displayed at Augusta Ca to the
intense disgust Of every righthearted Southern man.
was shown here to these captured cuthrosts plumber
Il ers incendaries aud ravshers BY whose authority
was il that these mercenary tools Of Lncon's dimuab
eruees against people were permitted u walk
streets with bouquets in their hands, visiting barber
sbops and stores and taking and laughing aud discuss
ing politics with such people coudescended TO it?-
Thus outrage upon stern justice permitted, and the
public voice cries shame" This public voice remen
bers the nine hundred Confederate prisoners that were
starved or frozen to death, aye, and poisoned too at
s., Louis afer the fall OF Arkansas Post. This voice
Knows that when our poor boys fighting for and our
liberties f.l into Yankee hands they are stripped OF
clothes shoes and money, fed Ike beasts aud treated
like dogs II remembers thar at Raymond, the other
day where these merceIaries were captured two re-
ta lie Young ladies we're gros " suited by the Lin
con sodiery their Eomes stripped Of everything, aud
one Of the young ladies' cripple, was forced to hObbe
on her crutches five miles to lace of refuge. How
does that oufederate who passed his jokes with these
Wretches know but they were the very men who perpe
trated the brutality.
A New Orleans refugee tells of young lady who,
walking on Canal street. o. that city and seeing an &C.
auanJance in a passing omnibus, ealuted her with a
smile A Yankee sentinel happened TO be standing
ar the spot and the plea that she laughing at
him, knocked her down upon the pavement Look 1t
driven from their homes, and Yankee robbers in the
shape Of men and women, waiting at their doors to go
in aud take possession of their homes the moment the
exes left them.
Hear again Of General Banks, the polished rapresen-
tatiTe OF the capital of New Erg'snd-a citizen of
Bos on, the ''Aihens Of America entering private
houses denudng the walls of pictures and the pantre
Of silver and shipping the plumber TO the North Be
member hcNei's murder of ten prisoners at Palmyra,
Burusides hanging of two Confederate officers in Y
N.t,lr Raun Una-th a uhola hlaoyn atal
isms which this fendish race has
our homes our rights 49, ofdisboI
then say has that ,;,,o u S a"a'rs
in he breast 80. Gan;lieo an,
49,. man got a Southern hear
Who can feel one throb Q
Tor the Williams who have COMMITTEES
- enormous injuries? 1t is base, untee
4 ing a unmanlv. The North does not wage vilize
war upon US If did, should sickle for the nices
Observances Of the laws OF chyary in the treatment
fallen foes But they fight with the ierocity OF will
b ,s and the ndiscrimnate boodhirstiness Oisayag'
They war upon women and children, old men, propert
] and goods. They burn, plumber and Flay. And yG
there are White-iyered people among us who forget
thus in maUkIsh sensibity and who can chat and al
que with the assassns who have made every third hous
10 the land house Of mourning, andwho would butche
"a all aud occupy our homes and lands and goods
they but had the power The military authorities oS
il 10 us to save us from such painful scenes. They ow
il TO the mothers and the widows whose sons and hus
bands lie in bloody graves, dug by these ruthless en
mics We counsel no cruelty to prisoners. But "
do hold that not one privilege should be accorded
them not demanded by the most rigid OF the rules an
usages Of war.
KxNrucK1.-A letter from Kentucky says: We may el
meet mere series of fearful eoohicts in the next thre