The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-16
ALxxAxprR II. AND ABRAHAM

mere nave Uecu iOT NOME weeks cOu
iinual rumofs Of an alliance, offensive AMI
defensive, between these potentates. W
know not what truth there may be ~
these rumors, but IL identity of position
and congeniality Of taste be in any Wise
promotiye Of such alliances As that ~
question. we should regard il as the most
probable thing in the world. Alexander.
with all the pomp and circumstance Of
bonndless power, is but splendid semi
barbarian after ALL Abraham has had
no opportunity to become civilized, hav.
ing spent the best part OF his life among
Hal -boatmen, or splitting rails and drink.
ing whiskcy on shore. Alexander, in
his Instructions TO Count Mouravief,
Governor Of the Lithuanian Provinces
not the gallant officer who captured
Kars, but distant relation---directs him
TO acquaint the peasants with the pa
,ernal intentions Of the Car towards
them, and to demonstrate that the land
holders are their enemies and Oppres
s0rs." Abraham issues a proclamation
i@nouncing all slayeholding, and inform
ing the negroes that their masters are
their natural enemies. Mouravietl is dl
rected TO furnish the peasants with arms,
that they may slaughter the land holders.
Abe's officers are directed TO form the
negroes into regiments and battalions. -
alexander directs MouravieH to proceed
with the greatest rigor against the Catho
lie clergy. Abe's officers inprison the
Catholic clergy, no doub; by his direc-
mons, whenever they suspect them OF a
feeling in favor of the Contederacy. --
Mourayiefi is directed to have list OF
the suspected clergy. Butler had SINH
lsr list, aud was applauded by Abe.
Alexander. directs Mouravief to pursue
the most energetic measures against the
catholics. Doubtless Abraham directed
Butler to do the same, OF at least never
Ieproyed him for the ontrages he perpe.
trated upon that class of what he thought
iii. to call offenders. Alexander .directs
the chief of the rebels to be shot if they
are taken. Abraham's friends boast that
he means to hang President Davis and
Ten. Lee. Alexander directs Mouravieff
To adopt measures against ia,nihes hay
ing friends in the ranks OF the insur-
cents" The policy of Abraham in this
respect is identical.
In the barbar0us acts which have toll
lowed in Poland and the Confederate
States, the instructions OF their respect
i've chiefs there is 4 striking resemblance.
The Cossacs slaughtered the wounded,
after the battle of Mrapol, until becOm-
ing tired of the exertion they buried
them while still alive. The Yankees
permitted our wounded men to lie for
days upon the field Of Gettysburg, with
out succor, whereby they persisted by
scores. If man gives glass Of water
to the Polish insurgent prisoners he is
sent TO Siberia. liza NAH offer Conled-
crate soldier cigar, he is sent to Fort
Delaware The Russians dig out the eyes
Of their prisoners, ill the sockets with
alcohol, and set it Oh fire. The Yankees
immune their prisoners in filthy dun
seons, like the hole OF Calcutta, and leave
them to die OF suHocation. The Russians
Hog the Polish women. The Yankees
shoot the Confederate women. The par
iizans of Russia in Poland induced par
~ of Poles to lay aside their arms under
the pretence of friendship and murdered
them all. The Yankees violate solemn
cartel, and keep their prisoners in their
filthy jails, in violation of their pledged
laith The Russian authorities hold a
mans wife and children responsible for
him. The Yankee General, Mcneil muir
defs ten men because one missing man
cannot be found, and, few days after,
the missing man is found. Mourayietf
boasts Of having shot one Catholic priest
and imprisoned u number of others. At
Viaksburg the soldiers entered the church,
carried off the vessels, desecrated the
premises, aud insnlted the priest, who
ls.stili in imminent danger. The Rus.
sian officers encourage the peasants to
murder the land owners. The Yankee
officers encourage the negroes to murder
their masters Numbers OF persons have
been murdered by the peasants in Lithu-
ania. A whole family was murdered by
the negroes in Tennessee.
But it is unnecessary to push the par
sliel further. 1t is natural that brutes
should sympathize, and that Abe and
Alexander should form Holy Al
lance against civilization. They are
both engaged in the cOngenial task OF de
straying brave people, and both rule
over = race of abject slaves. No where
on earth, save in Russia, can the Yam
KEGS find sympathisers, tar less aiders
and abettors. For detail Of Russian
harbarities the reader is referred to an
other column of this days paper. They
are atrocious enough to make the blood
run cold; yet they do not surpass those
which have been perpetratcd by the
Yankees upon our own people. The in
yitation to the se,fs to murder their mass
tiers, and-the promise to put arms in their
hands for that purpose, are not more afro
cioms than the conduct OF Lincoln and his
officers with respect to our negroes. In
0ae point Of view, far better excuse pre-
seHts itself for Alexander than can be
found for Lincoln. Alexander is heIedi-
tary despot The Poles are his subjects
by right Of conquest, at least he has been
educated to think them so. Lincoln is
the he'd Of what purports to be Re-
public, and the beOple Of the Confederate
States never were his subjects, and there
tore are not rebels. Alexander is acting
upon . conviction that he is but sustain
ing the just rights Of his Empire. Lin
coin i prompted by sheer wickedness--
~ the desire 10 humiliate and enslave 4
isse Peopse, upon whose allegiance he has
no claim whateyer.