Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-05-04
Nar,herr RetnIInnnn.

The kind -hsarted and courteous Northern
| Government is gate cut of temper about For
| Pillow, and MIR. Lincoln threatens to ~Fetzliats
/ horribly if he finds that his subjsets-white o.
black-Were put to the sword by Gen. F0rresI
| after be captured the fsrt. Il is, circumstances
aud sisnafed as we srs, decidedly amusing e
| observe the only horror which has excited in
the breast Of the representative man Of North
ern coArseness and brllalisy by the alleged
MASSACRE OF Fort Pillow. a volume could Lot
hold q simple recital Of the most s~iroeious and
bloody deeds psrpeirsted By Lincoin's hordes
Of mercensries and cut-tbIoEts upon eur people,
both soldiers and unofending, dOfenselees and
helpless cisizsns. Early in the war we have
the murder Of ten most respectable eitizsDs Of
Missouri By tho Federal General McNeal, be-
cause a traitor TO the South, who had enlisted
il the Federal army, was missing. and thss
traitor appeared after the executions had taken
placs. Then there was Tire hanging Of Mum
ford; the shooting Of KentUckisus in the
service Of The Confsderacy By Burnside; tie
driving Of helpless women and children into She
Confederate lines without the means Of suSsis'
tenee, after Tobbing theE1 Of ali thsiT earthly
possessions; the cold blosded murder Of South
ern planters, down to that of the killingaof a
highly respectable and venerable citizen of Mis-
sissippi, beien TO death the other dsy by negro
slaves enlisted by the Yankees TO increase tae
bArbarism and terrorS Of the war; and The still
laler brutslities of these ssme black soldiers in
hsnssmond county, n.this State.
These with the thousand Of other horrible
deeds, which are worthy the worst of demors,
not to speak of the DRhlgTen scheme to barn
sad sack Richmond and massacre her people,
have bean perpetT8ted by the Yankee hoTdes
with the appreciation OF their govcrnmsnt. No
word OF cansure for any of the brasGliliss of&ha
Yankee ATRies has ever been uttered bV that
governmeati no word Of regret OF remembrance
has been uttered by the northern communities
who have grown rich on the and the
products OF Southern toll. Even srch septi-
men'ahsts as Everett, and even tbs gentler sex,
living IN luxury and such ~elegsnes as pIeasss
The Yankee taste, contemplate the cxeesses of
the Yankee soidisTy with satisfaction, or at best
passive GOODNESS.
This interminAble catalogue of inhunsoities
lnetude many that demand retaiition, ana am
government omitted q rieht-mny we Bot ssv
duty lin not meteing out to the bloody hell
ne9nas who perpetTated tham blood for blood
and life for life. M
Now, suPposing the assertion b. true in every
paIncaiar, one OF our sficers evsils himself offs
rule of civilized warfare, and puts 70 the axord
q part Of a garrison which had, with no hone Of
successful resistance, refused to surrender after
repeated sunmoning, and occasions4 sacrifice of
ifo IN the stoKmiDg of their de(eDscs. This
measure, by which : wholesale lesson and az.
ample was gwen that may save The efusion of
blood hereafter, has ELECTED the shreste1in1 oil
the aforesaid e6ief OF the Federal dsspotism.
Well. let him Go his worst. Tbs South has
no fesrs. The NOtthern Government has ss-
seyed worse cAlSnitieB for the South than even
% threatened retaliation. Il has tried ~iusurrec-
ions and even famine. Yet the South is
aud more resoluts than ever. Should /