Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-03-04
Yankee Treatment Of egrocs.
from the MontguMerg hail

Ia the late message Of Governor Moore
to the Legislature of Louisiana, he states as
. fact (and he ID not che maa to make an
incorrect statement about aartkinr,l that
more negroes have persisted in Louisiana
frem the cruelty and brutality oftLo.. pub
lie enemy tan the combined number of
white men, in botk armies, froll the casual
tiles of war. In other words, counting all
the soldiers, both on our side and on the
Iankse side, who have died on tie field or
I in the hospital, the number Of negroes that
have died will far exceed them. III illus
tration he states that when our forces sur
prised and captured Berwick's Bay, last
summer, they found about two thoasand
negroes there in state Of most litter desti-
|tGtion-many of them 30 emaclatod and
sick that they died before the tender ha-
mainly of the Coafedarates could be,appliea
TO then rescue fsgsn death Il i 81 not thai
the Yankees did not have food enough to
give those poor slaves, nor medicine enough
TO cure their diseases, nor. clothing enough
to protect them against sun and rain. All
of these Yankees had in abundance. It was
the result of sheer inhumanity on their part
-of total Indifference to the sufferings Of
these poor wretches whom they had enticed
or forced away from their happy homes and
their kind masters.
Governor Moore states further that it is
almost universal practice to sop.rate fami-
lies without notice The men are driven
of like so many cattle to Yankee camp,
and enlisted ia the Yankee army. The
women and children are likewise driven off
ID drovea, and pat upon what are called
government plantations is, plant
atoms from which the lawful owners have
been forced to fl, ard which the YANKEES
in Louisiana are eultivafing; nominally for
tho government" bus really for their own
profit. The husbands Of the women and
the fathers Of children, never know where
their families are. If they were to escape
the perils Of battle and the perils equally
great, if not greaterY Of camp, and turned
loose to find their wives and children, they
would be utterly At @ loss to know where to
60 to look for them.
We do not give publicity to these things
nor does Gov. Moore-lor the purpose Of
stimulating our enmisy to that vile and de-
testable race Of people Who are now making
war upon US. We have reasons enough
already, to keep our hostility to them, for
sll time to cons, red Got and glowing. =
Nor do We bring these facts to light to Illus
trate the perfdy, general villiang, and pseu-
do philanthropy those people at the North,
ssho beast that they monopolize all the
Christianity md civilization on the CONT
nent. But il is for the purpose Of giving a
word Of practical advice It is this: Every
planter, who lives IN district threatened
Flth attack by the. enemy, ought to take
| steps to remove his slaves. at any moment,
| 80 place OF security. sstiot for his own sake
alana-but for the sake Of those slaves
themselves. For. as bad enemies as thew
age to us, taeg are worse enemies TO cur
slaves. They FIRST gseal everything il the
shape Of money or trinkets the slave may
have. They then f0raa tie males into the
army, to die by Confederate bullets, and
she women and children into camps where
they rot like sheep with pestilenco. uu-
mainly demands every planter should pre-
serve his people from a fate like this and
protect his slaves in this, as he would in
sickness or any other calamity. There are,
no doubt, many hundred OF them carried Of
by the enemy in their late advance into
Mississippi, end they will only furnish oc-
ession to add another chapter TO the already
long history os Yankee brutality in the
South. Let every planter. then, save those
for whom he is in so large degree respon.
sible from the clutches Of these Nothern de.
mons, for to do SO ia @ duty he owes tl
Humanity as well as to his country and
himself