Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-27

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18th T. O. AcosLI, Story
Davenport. Feb. Is. 1883.
Compromise and Cancellation.
To hear some Of the political demsgogues
Of the North, an impartial observer Of our ma.
tional affairs would suppose that We had
waged war upon the South and had thus far
been badly and soundly thrashed-that we
were in the wrong, the South contending
for the right. From the tone of the tory press
and speech, we can scarcely realize that the
North is struggling to restore the unity Of the
States and the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton. But readers, when we talk of compro-
mise measures and terms of oscillation, is it
not best to adopt those measures and terms
to the condition Of the enemy with whom we
treat? We should want to compromise with
the enlightened nation of Great Britain upon
different and more liberal terms than we
would with the Fejee Islands. The amount
OF national honor we should propose to sur
render would depend upon the integrity, in
telligence and civilization of the power with
whom we propose to compromise. What
American citizen would think Of yielding q
solitary point of national honor to Japan, Mo-
rocco, the Barbary States or even Mexico -
And yet, tories in our midst propose that the
Government lay down its arms and yield ev-
erything to portion of our country whose
defenders in the field have proved themselves
no more advanced than the people we have
named. That we do not misrepresent them,
We give few we'll authenticated facts, and
thereupon we ask the people of the North, if
they are prepared for anything short of the
subjugation Of such race Of 6ends, savagcs
and cut threats? Who propose compromise
and Cancellation with the authors of these
atrocitiesg
Every day new barbarities perpetrated by
the rebels come to light. This week two SOL
diers who had struggled from the ranks on
the march from - were found, it is report.
ed on credible authority, by the roadside with
their throats cut from ear to ear.
Here the rebels were guilty of barbarous
atrocities Many of the dead had their threats
cut, and presented horrible spectacle One
man was brought in who had had his eye.
picked out BY their 6ayonets. In short, they
evinced the most unrelenting fury on finding
this way Of retreat cut off to them.
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Numbers of our men were found with their
threats cut, and some had their eyes picked
out. One was found tied to Q tree. But
enough Of these horrors-1 must conclude.
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To what depths of inhuman wickedness
men, or fiends, can descend! Prisoners taken
by the rebels were afterward deliberately
murdered, and the fingers of our dead cut off
to secure rings. We grow wiser every day.
One man says They kept bayoneting me
until received fourteen wounds. One then
left me, the other remaining over me, when a
Union soldier coming up shot him in the
breast, and he fell dead. i lay on the ground
until ten o'clock next day.
The fellow at first made no reply, but,
STOPPING down, seized the dead man by the
hair and dragged him partially out Of his
grave, in order to get at the buttons on his
clothes for trophies.
Another saw the brains of the wounded be-
ing beaten out by clubs, thus confirming the
previous newspaper reports.
A lieutenant of an Ohio regiment, now in
this city, and who was at the battle of Bull
Run, states that he saw several Of our wound
ed bayoneted and having their threats cut by
the members of the Alabama and Georgia
regiments. The poor fellows begged for their
lives, but their pleadings were disregarded,
and with an oath the death-wound was in
flicted.
The Committee under the resolutions of
inquiry are receiving testimony from Pea
Ridge, showing incontestibly that there our
dead were not only scalped by the rebels In
Another writes:
You will of course have heard Of the fact
that the rebels had some three thousand In
dams under the command of Albert Pike
Also that some twenty of our men who fell in
the engagement under Col. Osterhaus, on Fri
day, and under Gen. Davis on Saturday, and
had the misfortune to be left on the field,
were foully and fiendishly scalped, murdered,
and robbed by these red-skinned wretches.
One Of the enemy's cavalry rode up to a
wagon containing wounded German soldier
of Capt Langworthy's company, Second Wis
consin regiment, and, dragging him out by the
hair of the head, piercing him through che
body with his sword, yelling, 'Pll teach you
id black abolitionists to come down here
to fight u.s." The trooper then rushed upon
the driver of the wagon, and with back cut
Of his sabre, nearly severed the mans head
from his body, and he fell lifeless among his
horses.