Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-07-24

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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY "a, 1858.
Yankee Humanity.

III. mos, Christian and enlg htened Government and
manila Of the United States OF North America nave
aaopei very singular modes Of exhibiting their virtues
- ~. outside b,rbarans in the South o. in Europe
w. s,r.c few items from late Northern papers to
~, bo, infinitely tender aud humane the Yankees
are;
W.sH1sGroS, July ls-Agents Of States charged with
th ca-e of the wounded hither from the held OF
ettysburg and state that thousands OF rebel wounded
are vet unprovided with shelter surgical treatment
This IA accounted for from the fact that our surgeons
have gone with Gen. Meads's army.
In il also stated that the War Department declines to
call ont volunteer surgeons from the Northern cities De
cause Of the malpractice that has resulted from su0H
arrangements heretofore
s,e,n DAYS after the battle not or two, ten or
tvsptv but Thousands Of southern soldiers are left on
the ground with no covering but the SKY, surgical
treatment, and doubtless, little food The gentle eii
Eens Of Gettysburg who locked their pumps up, and
sod water 10 their own soldiers pass and repass these
wounded rebels day after day, and pay no more atten
ton 70 them than so many dying dogs. l1deed, they
begin to complain that dead and wounded rebels smell
badly.
"Our surgeons have gone with Gen. Aeades army"
suppOsng that excuse be good What are We to make
Of the other-"he War Department declines 10 call out
volunteer surgeons from the Norherl cities because Of
the malpractice that has resulted from such arrange
neats heretofore" This means plainly that surgeons
and nurses from Baltimore TO be kept back until the
wounded rebels have perishedto man History never
before recorded an instance ia which civilized Gov
eminent inerpOsed TO prevent charitable persons from
aiding the wounded, thereby evincing its purpose to
murder in cold blood those who had been manged In
battle This is the way the Yankee humanarians raise
the black flag over The dying. Who can tell the hor
TOR, Of that uekess field Of Gettysburg, aud Who viii
pint the 6endish form Of Lincoln and Seward driving
OF the volunteer surgeons rurses:.
But the Yankee Government is not content to murder
the wounded only; It must kill the vel, also.
The DsaUA7e Republican" states that there are now
sever thousand prisoners Fort Delaware, their num-
Der havug been greatly increased within she press Mt
vssk. Srhe rebels suffer immensely, many Of them
being sick On Thursday last no less than seventeen
were inferred, having been conveyed to the adjacent
s,crs Of New Jersey for that purpose By the great ad
ditOn to the number Of prisoners the mortality viii be
prOoOrtionatelv increased"
That il rEht, .nOst Christian Yankees. Kill Of .
prisoners in your hands fast possible show EN-
no mercy; feap up wrath against the day Of wrath.
Il is not to be wondered that people peculiarly
mild in their treatment Of the Confederate Uour ded
should neglecs their own SUM- the excessively oruai
Indifference recorded in the following statement strikes
uiuiti horror and establishment:
After the first repue at Port Hudson, General Banks
sent no flag of truce to bury bis dead which remained
exposed between the lines for three days At the end
Of that time General Gardner sent flag 10 Banks re
ouestng that he would remove them Banks replied that
he had no dead there General Gardner then directed
General Beae serd flag TO General Anger and re
quest bin 20 bury the dead Of his division, which lay in
front OF the lst and 4gh. Anger replied that he did
not think he bad any dead there but he would grant
cessation Of bost ties 10 ascertain Accordingly, par
ties we're detailed TO pass the dead bodies over to the
Yankees and 200 odd we're removed from this portion
Of the works and With them wounded man, who had
been lying there three days without water, and was dy
blown from head to foot Banks was unwilling thAthis
men should witness the carnage which hsd been com
mitted. great many Of the dead must have persisted
during the three DAYS interval In front Of Johnson
S.eadman, and elsewhere none we're buried, and the
bodies Of the slain could be from the breasWork
the day Of the surrender twenty SIX days after the
6ght.
Apart from the countless atrocities committed in
every portion Of the South these extracts alone prove
that the world vas never cursed with identical
with the very devils ia hell the Yankees. VIII the
lust Judge Of al the earth ALLOW them go UNPUBLISHED