Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-05-18
A Rebel View of Wandering Prisoners of War.
From the Richmond Enquirer
THE PLYMOUTH MASSACRE.

Gen. Hoke, judging from the large number Of
his prisoners, does not seem 10 haee made Suct
thorough teoyk as that BIZ actich Forrest has so
shocked the tender soalLs AID frozen the 1Ca17a
blood of The Yankees The resistance he en-
countered was, probably, not so desperate,
and the blood of the victors was not so heat
ed i; though in a fertilization carried by
storm, the loss of the garrison must iCevita-
bly, be large.
TIE strict Ia1rs of c1yilized tcarfare ackrosoL
edge tie poace,- Of the yeter to put all to the sooord
IN such cases Hospeger Serere Saseb example
,7aight SEEM Il 1god strike SalUtGfY terror IN
the Yankees, lc1tach sgU be useful to them Ia tie
end, and dei, meaascAoly Acltine atmeeting part
of the punishment their bar5orities merit IS db-
s,1rd.
In the rapid fall of these positions which
the Yankees gained SO easily, we see some
thing like a reyulsion of the gUnboat mania.
At that period they made most of the acqui-
sitions which they have since held apparent
" in a firm grasp The refux of the tide Is
no less sudden than its advance. The year
1864 may undo the work of 1862, and sug-
gest a solution of many difficulties which
seemed almost insurmountable.
From the Richmond Examiner, April PSI
THE FORT PILLOW MASSACRE.
But it is evident that Lincoln's heart was
not in his introductory congratulations to
these many people," nor in his new edition
of the old fable. The .confederates have
succeeded in establishing a raw, "raw, y
raw" on his callous hide have at last
succeeded in making him fee his responsible
ty. Nor is the responsibility pleasant one.
Indeed it is so unpleasant that while che
fears, he believes" yet he takes care to say
that he does not know that the report of the
Fort Pillow massacre is true. Z" To take the
life of any one of their prisoners, on the as
sumption that they murder ours, when it is
short Of certainty that they do murder ours,
might be too serious, too cruel mistake"
How tender hearted This serious, this
cruel mistake, has been made times out of
number since the beginning OF the war Why
does it suddenly too serious, too cruel? SIM
ply because we have shown that we, as peo-
pie, are heartily tired of policy dictated
partly by sentimentality, partly by foolish
Difference to the good opinion of the world
partly by an official awe at Washington
policy to which we have sacrificed too long
the lives of our brave soldiers and our Sol
emn sense of duty. We are not a nation Of
butchers. We are not, like ancient Pistol,
thirsting " to suck, to suck, the very blood to
suck" But we have deal with a race of
butchers, of Pistols, of NcNeils, and Buffers
and we must mete ont to them strict justice
even the letter of The law. All hell shall
cape for this" says Lincoln in effect. ''Ret-
ribution shall certainly come" and these
brave words may mean something if we re-
cede from our position. They may mean
something, if the fortune of war or the mis-
management of our military leaders should
give the Yankees an overwhelming advan
tage lit prisoners. Repeat Fort Pillow. Re-
peat Plymouth a few times; and we shall
bring the Yankees to their senses, and, what
Is even better, our government viii rise TO a
proper sense of its position as an organ of a
nation, and no longer act as if it were the
junta of a set of reyolted prisoners.