The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-10
Rebel BrutalItIes.

We have to add one other credible &C.
countto the horrible catalogue of rebel cru
elites to Union prisoners. The recent re-
ports OF starvation and other sufferings
which our men are compelled to endure
In Richmond, receive the most palpablc
and appalling confirmation in the arrival
at Annapolis, on Thursday, of one hun
dreo and eighty-one paroled prisoners.
dying Of hunger and exposure. Eight
died on the boat, coming up More than
fhIrd OF the rest, say the surgeons, are
beyond help from nourishment or medi-
cIne-must helplessly die because they
were denied food and shelter while pris-
oners of war in rebel hands. And the
whole number of these men were in such
condition Of weakness and disease that
they had to be sent to the hospitals-ev-
cry man Of them
We are past wondering at hese afro
cities. We only wonder when they are
not committed. The record Of this war
is SO hideously full of them, that thew are
no longer to be excused or accounted for
as exceptional barbarities. From Bull
Run down to Chickamauga, we believe
there is no battlefield which has NOT been
crimsoned by rebel massacres. What are
called the rules of civilized warfare are
tar more often savagely violated than de-
Gently observed by the rebels. Grant. if
you please, that something is to be par
doned in the heat of battle-thouph the
men to whom it is to be pardoned are the
men who call themselves the "chiyaIr,n
of America. But though you grant that
thousand times over, it does not touch
the case of the slow fortunes persistently.
Systematically inflicted on many, MANY
thousands of Union prisoners, some Of
whom have died under the torture. and
some of whom yet live to tell the tale.
The Libby Prison, in Richmond, has long
been name of horror at the North, but
we believe the hundredth part of the truth
about 1t, and about other rebel dungeons
Is not yet publicly known. Much of it
Will always remain so, or will be the OBJ.
scure tradition of separate villages and
homesteads all over the country 10 which
sufferers have returned but enough will
pass into history to cover its perpetrators
with infsmy forever, and TO remind pos
terity that people once brutalized BY
slavery have forfeited their civilization
ana humanity, as well as their regard for
justice and for honor.-[N. Y. Tribune.
srARvlNG OUR PRlsoHEgs AT R1cH-
MoND.-1he story, which reaches ms
through the Baltimore American, that
some OF our prisoners have come home
IRON Richmond in starving condition.
ana that eighty out of one hundred and
elshty have actually died from the lack of
food, would not be believed if it came
through less trustworthy channel. We
know from what we see in the Richmond
Journals that food is very scarce in the
rebel capital. But as the Government
has the power of impressing all the pro-
duce II chooses to take, there is no excuse
Tor not furnishing the prisoners with food
enough to sustain life IF the rebel Gov.
ernment has not resources enough for
that, 1t should release the prisoners on
parole Such outrageous cruelty as this
which Is reported, is unparalleled, even in
The previous treatment of our brave sol.
diers by the rebels.
EF- In the illness Of Coleman. the
1octor being late in his appointment.
irologized TO his patient, saying that he
mad been called to see q man who Ind
fallen down WE'LL. "Did he kick the
bucket. doctor :" enqured the patient.
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