The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-09

Federal Devastations in the South---Des
truction of the carnatic by Hyder All
---Burk's eloquent and terrific descrip.
tion---A Warning. ar3 ' i"" 81
The Federal newspapers but short time
ago teemed with exultant accounts of the
desolation of the country lying between the
5 Big Black and Yazoo rivers, in Mississippi
for stretch of over fifty miles, wrought by
} the Cavalry or Gen. Grants army now be-
sieging .Vicksburg. These accounts repre-
sented that the Federal Cavalry ravaged
this wide and fertile district with remorse-
lessruth, destroying all the crops fall kinds,
baled cotton, grist-mills, cotton gins, fac
tories, shops, warehouses and stores, barns
and contents, farming implements, provi-
sions, clothing, &C., &C., &C., and killing or
driving. off all the live stock, horses mules,
cattle, sheep and hogs, leaving the wretch
ed, ruined, undone inhabitants, old men,
women and children, only enough food doled
out to save them from immediate starvation,
but with no means or implements to raise
new crops to replenish their meagre stock of
food soon to be exhausted. This destruc-
ton was inflicted, not on public property of
the Confederate government, which, accord
ing to the laws of nations is legitimate prize
of war, but the private property of the in
habitants, embracing that belonging as we'll
to reputed Union men as to rebel sympa-
thisers. These organs of an Administration
which once professed the object Of the war
to be the restoration of Union based oD the
fraternal spirit of the people of its different
sections, published also jubilant reports of
similar raid in northern Alabama and boast
ed, in terms of joyous delight, of the many
millions worth of private property destroy
ed and of the utter distress and despair of
the helpless and defenseless inhabitants of
the ravaged and desolated districts. And
they furthermore informed the civilized ma
tions of Christendom, with equal exultation,
of the complete destruction by fire, Of the
defenseless ard unresisting towns of Bluff
ton, S. O., Darieu, Ga, and Richmond, La,
by Federal forces-the same forces OF whom
Mr.. SIMMER, q. S. Senator from Massachu
sets, with characteristic Yankee Fharisee-
ism, said in the Senate, on learning that an
individual southern soldier had made sport
with the bones of dead northern soldier
at is Uery evident that Our army IS contending
Nth an enemy Of inferior civilizstiorl"! But
why need we refer to these particular cases,
when, even prior to their perpetra tion, as the
world knows, two thirds of Virginia, two
thirds of Tennessee, the coasts of South
Carolina, part of Georgia, nearly all of
Florida, Western and Southern Louisiana
great portions of Arkansas and Missouri, had
been laid waste and subjected to an almost
equally accomplished desolation?
A humane, christian citizen, deploring
the causes as we'll as the existence and con-
sequences of this already too norrid civil
war, but praying to the God of Mercies and
j Justice that, if, in the madness of men, it
must still rage, it shall be conducted accord
ing to the laws recognized by civilized ma
tions, which respect the persons, lights,
liberties and property of private individuals
not in arms, on reading these accounts of the
burnings, ravages, devastations and desola-
tiors in the South, has addressed us a re-
quest to copy from Edmund Burke's mag
nificent speech in the British Parliament, in
in 1855, on the Nabob of Arcot's debts, that
renowned orators eloquent but terrific des-
cription of the destruction of the Carnatic,
by the feroeious and ruthless Hyder Ali.-I
Our correspondent fears we are gradually
becomins habituated to consider such un
speakable barbarities not only without
horror, but even with joyousness; and he
thinks wholesome shudder on the perusa
of Burbe's awful description, may perhaps
to some extent repress the tendency of our
armies, step by step, to perpetrate the same
horrid atrocities so terribly executed by the
pitiless and rsnorseless East Indian Desc
lator. '-
The ex tract from Burke follows. If any
one can read it without hair standing on
end with out the profoundest horror, and
without receiving to himself solemn ad-
monition to repress the ferocity of maddened
buman nature, he is not man, but fiend:
...- OBSTRUCTION OF THE cARNATIC.
from speech on the Nabob of fArcot's debts, 'S5.l
"When at length Hyder Ali found that he
had to do with men who either would sign
no convention, or whom no treaty and no
signature could bind, and who were the de-
termined enemies of human intercourse it
self, he decree6 to make the country pos
sessed by these incorrigible and predestl-
mated criminals memorable example to
mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy re-
cesses of mind capacious of such things, to
leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting
monument of vengeance, and to put per-
petual Gesolation as barrier between him
and those against whom the faith which