The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1864-12-24

d ng, With one shundpcd white cavalry, from
the Eighth and Seventh regulars, started for
the Northern Neck, landing at'Kinsafe. Four
hundred negroes with white commissioned
officers) and fifty white cavalry, proceeded to
,devastate Westmorelaqd county, destroying.
keverything IN their line of march.
Among the great sufferers was Mr.. Brown,
near the Hague. Everything but his house
was destroyed. Mr.. BenEhglish, after having.
everything destroyed, was stripped, tied up,
and given thirty-nine lashes with a'cowhide..
And, more horrible, but only too true, tweu-.
ty five or thirty ladies were violated by this
party of negroes. could give names, but
deem it not best. Neither age nor color was
spared by these demons, who were encour-
aged by their white officers.
The rest of the regiment, three hundred
strong, with fifty white cavalry, under the
immediate command of Col. Draper marched
to Richmond county. On the road six ne
groes violated the person of Mrs g. eleven
times, she being the wife of a soldier Of the
Ninth Virginia cavalry, being also sick at the
time, with an infant six months oldat her
breast. This is only one instance out of
twenty others uf like outrage.
In their march, no age nor condition was
exempt from their desolating hand. plunder
and lust stimulated and marked all their
movements. No appeal nor supplication
Ecould turn them from their beastly purposes
and brutal excesses.
In vain did the mother beseech Ano the
daughter shrek. Ny paper would blush did
| attempt to write In full detail the scenes
THAT were enacted. Where they went they
were led by their officers and told, H You can
go loose and do as you please" And verify
they did go loose and .do-as they please, as
many heart-broken parent and ruined
daughter will testify.
This disgusting detail has been widely cir
culated in the North; but, in the Lincoln
press as simple item of war news, without
calling for single exclamation of horror, or
even so much as rehuke from the loyal
supporters of the Administration. How
dead is the moral sense How brutalized
the public and private heart4 All this kind
of depraviry has the official and social sup
port of Mr.. Lincoln. A President who was
not himself stepped in vulgarity and obscen-
| ity wohld quickly clean his skirts from all
| connection with such denominations. But
vulgarity and obscenity are controlling forces
in Mr.. Lincolns mind. They belong to him
as mango to dogs, or measles to swine. The
fmtid moral atmosphere which he has spread
over the land has gone out as naturally from
him as the deadly vapor from the deadly upas
tree. Can we endure four years more of this
demoralizing rule without sinking beneath
the aceursed ruin of Sodom and Gomorrah
-Four years more! Spare us, oh God, the
calamity One of the most accomplished
English authors, Mr.. Price, said /: Licen-
tiousness and despotism are more nearly al
lied than is commonly imagined" Four
years of Linceln'S rule has convinced us OF
the truth of this remark Spare us further
proofl It Will be a quarter of century be.
fore our country will. recover from the moral
shock it has already received by four years Of
such fatal rule. Shall we make it half 3
| century by re-eecting this monntebank-this
moral and social pestilence as well as public
calamity?