The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-26

Mr.. CLAY, Of Alabama, from the Com
miitee Of Thirteen, appointed at the last
SESSION to collect and-Feport outrsges, on
persons and property committed by the
public enemy, in violation OF the rules Of
civilized warfare, reported in part, and
asked leave to continue their labOrs du-
ring the recess also asked that the va
cancy in the Committee, occasioned by
tle death of Mr. Preston, be filed.
The report was received, aud the va
cancy of the Committee filed by the ap.
p ,intment Of Mr.. Japerton. The follow
ing is he report OF the Committee
THE Select Committee Of Thirteen,
consi ting Of one Senator from each of
the Conltd rate States, raised under the
resolution Of the Senate at it's last ses
sion, TO collect and report the evidences
of uuirages committed by the enemy up
on our citizens, in violation of the ru es
of civilized warfare and the rights Of hu-
msnity, ask leave to report. That they
have received statements of wrongs, in
juries, and outrages committed by the
enemy in only four States of the COnfed-
eracy: Alabama, Arkansas, North Car
ina and South CarolIna-and these em-
race only small part of what has been
suffered by our citizens in those States.
But these statements show that our inva-
ders ave been utterly regardless of eve
ry principle Of lawful warfare, every pr,-
cept of Christian religion, and every SEN
tIment OF enlightened humanity. Ia a
spirit of wanton and vindicative malice,
or of rObber-like rap pAcity, they have
carried off property tor which the esi
mate made almost invariably under oath,
'mOun's in the aggregate Is 100000.
In many parts Of lh SO States they
ave burned the dwellings and Outhouses,
granaries, gins ana mill hOus, g fences
and crops, tue implements Of husbandry
and tools of trade, aud provisions for
subsisiing both man and beast; have cu'
down or Otherwise destroyed the fruit
'rees and vineyards, have killed the oxen
aud COWS, the sheep and hogs, thereby
evincing The base and savage purp se of
,aking from our people all their means
of present and future subsistence; of
forcing them TO seek food and shelter
beyond the reach of their armies, and of
wasting end desolating the land that they
may convert il into a desert. They
have urned or battered down public
edlhces devoted to civil or religious pur-
poses, store houses, court houses and
churches-aud have either destroyed or
taken off the public records, the books
and the saorsmental vessels, thereby dis
playing desire and intention TO destroy
our monuments of property, onr evil
dences of marriage and legitimacy, our
history, on the very bonds OF society,
and to resolve it into condition of an
archy and strife, where no mans rights
are secure and wrong may be done with
impunity. They have not spared even
the memorials Of our dead. or suffered
their remains TO rest undisturbed. They
have torn down and mutilated the monu-
ments IN our cemeteries, aud have ex-
humed and opened collins, either to
crafty a surdid avarice or fiendish ma
Lightly. They have mutilated and re-
moved public aud private libraries, por-
traits and other paintings, statues and
other works OF art aud taste, pianos and
other musical instruments, and all house,
hold furniture. They have rouhed many
prisons of relics of deceased parents,
children or other relatives or friends,
which we're invaluable TO them and val
ne ess 10 the robbers, msrely 10 torture
the souls of our citizens, and to satisfy
their own mean and malevolent animosity.
| They have murdered peaceful and un-
| of ndiOg citizens, and have seized and
taken many of them from their fami-
lies and homes, and incarceraied them
ia prisons of the United States.
To others they have offered the choice
Of prison, or an oath OF allegiance to
the United States. They have rushed
| by regiments, battallions or companies
into our Villages, and robbed, like ban.
| ditti, both men and women in their well
lings and on the streets, OF money, watch
es and jewelry. Their o diers have in
dulged their brutal passions upon wo-
men, sometemes in open day and in pub
lac places, with impunity, if not by H.
ctnse OF their officers. They have not
spared either age, sex or calling. Old
men, women aud children, ministers of
religion, peaceful artisans, men Of science
and letters, tillers OF the earth, and 9TH
ers not bearing arms, or guilty of any
misconduct, have been made 10 suffer as
| hostages, or VioAriOus victims of the Sc
we're but defensive blows inflicted by our
gallant soldiers upon these cowardly in
vaders. Even those unfortunates, whom
the MYSTERIOUS providence Of God has
bereft of reasen, or of the faculty OF
speech, or the sense Of sight or hearing,
have not escaped the demOniscal wrath
OF our enemies. The Committee would
cite examples Of each of these Outrages,
aud The testimony by which they are
sustained, bat that il would swell this
report beyond the limits which will in-
sure i's publication and perusal; aud as
he wrongs and Injuries done are not
hall told, the Investigations having ex-
tended to ouly smail part of four States,
the have deemed II best 20 postpone
iull recital TO another session of Con-
gress, when they may make a final re-
port
SIN conclusion, the Commite feel war
ranted IN saying that the conduct OF the
way on the part Of our enemi,s has not
exhibi Ell the moderation, the forbearance
the chivalrous courtesy, the magnanimi-
~ or Onrlstiau charity which The spirit
Of the age mands, aud which the prao-
tice Of civilized nations Tor several CEN
turies past has generally illustrated. Ii
has bees q war 40 more against Que m
armed men, lhaa our helpltss and moo
cent women and children. IL has been
proposed TO destroy not only our means
Of defense but our means Of subsistence ;