Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1863-12-12

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the opinion, that the time will come,
when civilization and learning shall light
up the dark abodes of the four hundred
million people in India, and when lheir
wants and necessities will put the patient
and hardy negro to toiIing, and opening
up the great valley Of the fertile but
miasmatic Amazon.
He warns his fellow-citzens against
INDUCING in belief of discussions among
the Northern people, and denounces
guerrilla warfare.
HE BITTERLY DENoUNcEs HINDMAE.
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Among his (FIindman's) first acts was
to declare martial law all over the State,
and to appoint patrols of ten with Cap
tain in each towuship-a new military
organization of his own creaton.--
Among their duties was, to assist in ar
resting and inprisoDing, without charge
or complaint, the suspected treemen of
Arkansas. And many poor creature
thus torn from home and family, died in
some oathsome cell, or persisted by the
wayside. Would you believe it, my fell
low-citizens, that two or three lines from
Hindman or one Of his subordinates, has
been all the commitment upon which re-
specialize citizens, with their heads shorn,
have fingered year in the penetentiary,
treated as ordinary convictss The rec
ords are in the city of Little Rock.
But this is not all. He .pundered our
people most mercilessiy. Anarchy and
despotism We'd in their reign. His COM
missary department was so managed
that, with an ahsspdent country to draw
and collect supplies from, it was so neg
lected at am told, in many instances
he took bread from the mouths of help
less women and children, whose only stay
and support had persisted by disease or
by the bayonet. He assumed to regu
late prices. By this arbitrary and ty-
ranical means he caused great suffering,
and Afforded increased facilities for the
growth of fraud and crime, while all
honest men were well nigh impoverished.
He ordered cotton to be burned in places
remote from navigation, and where ar
army will never tread, and where, if it
should come. it could not more than
transport supplies, much less haul cot
ton And he sent brutal, rough men to
execute these orders. If citizen com
plained, he was snubbed, plundered or
imprisoned! Oftener all of these things.
OF all these things Jeff. Davis was duly
informed.
When long absence and tales Of dis
tress, coming from tho plundered homes
of toll worn soldiers, impclled them from
impulses not to be dispised, to force their
way home, to stop the cry of suffering
babes, and soothe the sorrow Of heart
broken wives, with the intention of again
returning to thsir commands, he has not
waited their return, but treated them as
deserters, had them hunted with negro
and dogs, and when caught, executed
with fen lshness alike cruel and shock
ING to humanity!
He has, am told, appointed Military
| Commissions which should keep no rec
ords, and from their midnight recesses
spoken away the lives of citizen and sol
der. In one instance, this mysterious,
and worse than Jesuitical tribunal, con
demnel to six months imprisonment a
citszen OF our State. With stroke Of
his pen, he raised tho penalty to capital
punishment, and the yictem was accord
ingly executed.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
This gentleman has proven himself
totally unworth to the emergency. With
the whole cotton crop and wealth
of the South Mt his disposal, and the
friendship of many European powers,
he has accordingly nothing abroad. =
His foreign policy has been a stupid fail
ure. He has permitted himself to be
oycrreachcd and outmauaged in every
thing. Ills policy at home, while proving
him to be strong in some respects, has
shown him to be weak, mean, and ma
ligaant to others. He is cold, selfish
and supremacy ambitious. And under
the cover of outward sanctity and
patriotism. flows concealed the srong-
est vein Of hypocricy and demagogue-
ism.
He has never been up to the magni.
nitudo of the undertaking. He refused
troops for the war in Nav. A. ID. 1861,
because he did not "know that they
would bc needed" His idea at first
seemed to have been that hostiities
wonld cease, and lie bent his energies for
cheap war. His preparations and out
fit were accordingly contracted and pra-
simonious. Awakened to sense of his
error, his next aim seems to have been
to conquer his foes, and put down every
man that had crossed his pathway in
( life. The latter succeeded at all events.
Instances Of this are numerous, but that
of Senator Brown-the peer of Mr..
Davis in everything, his superior in
many, and his rival aud successful COM
petitor for the United States Senate-is
! pointed. He joined company in Davis
army, and was elected Captain. He had
capacity for any position. Yet Mr.. Da-
Wis, not looking to the public interest,
but to the qualification of his own pri-
vate feelings. seeks this opportunity to
strike an old rival and embraces it.