Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-15
The Horrors of the Rebellion.

The Louisville Journal, Of November 10th,
contains the following graphic sketch of the
horrors of the rebellion in the South:
| A letter from the wife of rebel officer to
friend in Europe, published there, and
transferred to the American press, mourns
prodiyiouSly over the anticipated fall Of
/ Charleston, and saws: 81 blush for the
/ North, and ask myself can it be the same
/ race l once knew, so quiet, peaceable and
| civilized No, the demon Of wicEedncsS has
| been let loose, and they must all be crazy. |
| do not suppose you have the slightest idea OF
! our Sutfcriugs-Of the thousands on thou
sands of poor, houSeleSS, sufferers, refugees
from places in the hands of orr enemies.
How verv complaccntlv she Ignores all the
participation of the Southern cOnSplratOrS IN
bringing about the suffering and misery.
Has she no blush for those who first en-
ploved negroes in the war, and who hive not
hc>itatcd 10 let loose the mcrcileSS Indian to
the disgrace Of civilized warfare, in this I'M
holv rebellion: From the day when the cam
non were posted to compel the surrender of
Sumter M TO the present moment, the rebels
have manifested no desire to mitigate the
horrors Of war, but, on the contrary, they
hate thrown imp"dimcntS in the way Of the
exchange OF prisoners, and even res lrtcd to
turcd Fcicral< BIZ their friends from the loyal
States II the demon OF wi"krdncSS has
been let loose, the friends OF the rebel lady :
husband unclaimed him, and cried - havoc
when they let him slip.
We svmuathiZr most deeply with the suffer
ingS of the thousands ON thousands Of poor
houseleSs families throughout the Confrdc-
racv, but we cannot forget the p1lliI faces.
Shivcring limbs and almost naked bodies
of those refugees we have seen, who have
been driven from their homes III -Alahama,
Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee, for 10
other crime than their love Of tue old Union
and their determination never to coa>plrc
against its integrity. We feel for human
suffering everywhere, and we know that 4
large majority Of those who suffer for the
crimes Of the cOnSpirators who fred the
Southern heart and precipitated the cotton
States into rebellion, were always averse to
the terrible guilt. But all around us are to
be seen other classes of sufferers, driven from
burning homes and dcspoiled FARMS widows
who have seen their husbands butchercd be-
fore their ewes mothers who have heard the
death curgle of their BOYS beneath the knife
of the Confederate assassin; and tender
( children whose tattercd garments have been
despatched with the life drops of their pa
rents, shed in some midnight raid upon some
quiet, solitary nome, whose pcacelul IepoSe
might have arrested the uplifted hand Of the
demons of hell itself, and compelled them TO
I turn aside in admiration and pity for the do
nestle tranquility they were about to in
terrupt. All through our State, blackencd
beams and solitary chimney stacks are the
| dismal monuments of ruined families; in
! many parts famine has stalked through desc
/ lated cornfelds, and, with few exceptional
/ localities, whole communities have been re-
duced to the point Of starvation by rebel
! robbers, who have taken the last pound Of
meat and corn from them. And these rob-
/ bers are the chivalrous friends of the rebel
| lady who holds up as her enemies the loyal
/ men of Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Georgia, and other States
which are divided in sentiment, and where
| some have been found base enough to forget
their domestic affairs, their attachments to
/ their State, their allegiance to their country,
and their duty to God, and seek refuge in
| the bastard Confedcracy, from whence they
whine their piteous and mendicant appeals to
| Europe, and hope to excite the humanity Of
the world in their favor. Out upon such by
pocrisy!