The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-05-21
,,.pspAY MORNING. MAY 81. ls6
..u.,a... Military Executions.

r..v were both killed by the nrst Dire. and
~,,,ou, struggle. Their bodies were
Ss' ia their friends from Kentucky by
'e.f - Gen. Burnside.' Thus reads the
''" sm from Sandnsky, Ohio, announcing
gre ...n,iau of T. =. McGraw and Wm- Cor.
'' "a, we're sentenced to death, We believe,
"' 1.svoring 10 enlist mon in Kentucky for
]" s.,,bsrn cause. They died without a
''s n. Ia the consoiing announcement and
p,rns,de most graciousiy ordered their
o' bodies to be delivered to their friends T.
- ",msn si the beginning ofths wal, put on the
'' -f ,be humane gentleman but finding that
." n,Dula, with the Yankees, he essays row
.f..r road to favor and thrift in the North.
~ mind, by throwing of all hypocrisy and
',,n;ns 60 the unrelsved and unmi.igated brute
y, las how Butler has thriven in Yankee
.-bov he has firmly fixed himself ON a
n;,a base on the very fock of Plymouth,
..s,s he cannot be shaken or displaced by
times against justice aud humanity. lie
,barsfore become his imitator, and is
~, in the popular scale along with him,
'',,.;l;stsd and dissraced by his failures on
-. Potomac, he finds 8 malicious satisfaction,
,usil as a faciis way of lifting himself up in
y.,sssiom. iii issuing inhuman and bloody
,,l,-s spsinst all sympathizers with the men
ma. ysIor and skill in arms drove him i'll
.,,rscs from the battle field Safely enscon sed
.s n. besdouarters, in his own country, he is
..,og a slashipg business among those who,
,,,,nyh the agency of his spies and informers,
.,,or The penalties of his orders. He thus
,s.s, spite that is free from present pefil-a
oais; ani safe revenge, comforting to a cow
III heart and grateful 10 coward feelings.
Bet Barnsiie is only performing the duty
s.s,spei him ty his master at Washington
LIKE the exscraied headsman, he is the mere
instrument appointed to his bloody Office
There ls. however, more serious view of the
s,nsuinary orders now being enforced
through him and others by the inhuman Gov
s,uuent at Washington. 1t becomes the duty
si the Government of the Southern Confed.
srscy, Is far as lie in Its power, to protect
lao,s enlisted III lis cause, and to retaliate
lfon our ruthless enemy his wanton and un.
ss.liahle cruelties. 1t has already been an
uouneel that measures would probably be
.ssn TO re;AIiate for the execution of two
ksn,uckians. and We believe those mentioned
10 this srtiele. Ii the cases of those men are
gfcpsrly understood, there can hardly bs two
opinions az to the proprlety of this retaliation.
Tie necessity for it is painful in the last degree
1t is sai that the innocent must suffer.
Bat no recourse ia left the South
There is 10 other way of bringing the enemy
10 sense of his obligations to the usages Of
,yllzei warfare and humanity 1t is indeed
woeiui phase OF war which inaugurates such
-=4sufes Of retaliation but upon the enemy
rssts the dreadful responsibility. To the South
Ilere is 10 other mode left of protecting its
people II the black Tag is unfurled it will be
l1- enemy who gives it 10 the breeze; that
enemy who is seeking the sid of serviie in-
sIrrecil0us-the armipg of the slave against
bis master, and who has proven himself the
Tsady PerPetrat0r of any outrage, any crime,
any horror in all the Ia3ge of horrors that
usy injure, or harass, or bring calamity upon
!As brave and magnanimous people he is ell
da4v0riBg vainly to su6ugate