Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-10-15
From the Richmond Wing
Tn, Laws ,,s CiyIjx IL Warfare

Abraham Lnculu 10 his letter to his par y adhe-
rents IN Illinois, insists that the Government Ut the Uni
ted States has not violated the laws civllizd
tare I'D lis Efforts to crush 1.-THE rebellion BY Way OF
showing the faslty Of his stat men, append the io
loWlrg extract trCm the treaty OF peace de during
President PoJk's Administrator, BET een the United
States and NJ xico upon the close of the bstween
those two cCuntrs- Il CONSTITUTES article "a OF that
treaty, and with slight moi fcation, may be regarded
as embodying in brief the recoguz d laws OF nterna-
tlona war brtweer. bellgeieEts Tie s.. pulAtiOn is
MADE 10 the contingency OF future war between the
two republics, aud provides that
he merchants of either republic then residing in the
other shall be allowed to remain twelve months Cor those
yelling Ia the intelior and six months or those dwell
affairs during which periods they shall eIoy the same
protection, and be on tie 70 in all respec
At the expiration any before they shall
have full liberty to depart IF ell their with
out esatIon or conforming therein to the
same Ia Tswhch the ci!izehs subjects the f.
y natoLs 1equred to conform
Upon entrance armies of any nation into III.
territories of the other women and Children Gcho of
every faculty. cultiyat9rs the merchants artisans
manu- aEa heim'n unarme and nhabiting the
oruhed o"ns villages or places, aLd general all per-
Sons whose occupations for th9 subsistence
suplo,mens unmolesed in their persons Nor shall their
houses goods be burned otherwise dsstro ysd
forces whose power By the war they may
happen to fails but the necessity arises to take anything
be paid equita bic price. ALL churches hospitals
schools colleges libraries. and other establishments
persoas connected with the protected in the dis
charge Of their duties and the pursuit their voca-
tions
In order that the fate OF prisoners of may
leviae0 all such those OF sending them
distant 1pclament unxholesome DISTRICTS croRding
them Into close or noxOus places, shall be studousIY
avoded. They shall be confined in prison.
ships prisons be put in irons bound other
restrained the Of Their mbs The officers shall epiov
liberty, their parole, within dis riots,
have Jmfo able quarters and the soldiers shall
be disposed IN canonmenss and extensive enough
for and and lodged barracks roomy and
whose
are, for troops. The Ulcers snail be dai.
ly furnished with rations aud articles
as are allowed, either In kind by Communication, to Off
OF equal rank in its own army AID all others shall
be daily shed with such allowed to
common soldier IN its
How far the unscrupulous authorities at Washington
have followed this CODE devised by their Govern
ment in the days OF its spectaby, let the farms laid
waste, the deaced sanuaries, the pundered banks the
pilaged libraries aid the conscated wealth OF cities
and country answer. 10 these add the scene OF uon-
combatauts, men, women and children, fleeing from
their homes at the dead of night in fear OF destruction
of the prisoners OF War now coDf2ed in Forts Nc
Henry, Lafayette and of other bastiles in the
orth, and, in fine, OF hundred Southern towns and
Villages robbed by brutal sold:ery, destroyed by
sweeping COZ hagrations.