Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-10
From the Petersburg Register.
Ghc BOm ba rd nm ent Of Peters IA rg

Ghc GOm ba rd ment OF Peters burg.
What advantage Grant hopes to gain from
knocking holes through the dwellings of Peters
burg, no intelligent man can conceive. Knock
ing two windows into one. and smashing up fur
niture do not tend to soften Southern man :
dislike of Northern association, but. on the con
trarv. ntensities his hatred by adding personal 10
political wrongs. There is no strategic point to
be gained, or even advanced by the destruction
of Petersburg. Ii Grant succeeded in destroy
ing every house in the city he would not be
nearer the attainment of its possession. Ii is
the military position. covering so many import
ant railroads, that Lee and Beauregard are de-
Tending, and in this view the dwellings of the
citizens are only of secondary Importance. Its
ruins would be stubboruly defended the
furnishing city IS At present. Ii Grant can, by
force of strategy. drive the Couiederates from
their intrenchments in front of the city. Peters
burg is his without throwing aiIO'her shell into
1t; if he cannot do that, he is baffied and de-
feated even if Petersburg is leyeled with the
dust
1t is evident 10 military necessity requires the
Smelling of the city. 1t is merely to gratify a
fendish feeling Of hatred against everything
Southern that Grant j. violating the laws OF war
as recognized by Christian nations. The de-
s,ruction of noncombatants has always been re
garded with horror by every MARION, save those
of Asia. The uncivilIzed red man OF the forest
spares the squaw and her helpless child; the
civilized Yankee involves both in common de
strUctiOn. The shame. the disgrace, the obloQuy
will fall upon the Northern people, but. it will
not rest upon them alone Grant, Meade, Butler.
and all the other leaders. who are cufrying favor
with a boodthrsty fanaticism. will meet with a
merted fate. The curses of a ruined people
will ascend to Heaven and be recorded against
them and their families to the latest generation
He who has said. II will yisi; the sins of the
fathers upon their children. will avenge our
wrongs, for "vengesnce is mine, saith the
Lord Even here OF earth will the prosecutors
be remembered, and history will pilory Grant
and his coadiutors, as i, has already held up for
The execration of pusterity the boodlhrsiy
Generals who outraged humanity 10 the fifteenth
century. during the thirty years war in
Germany
NEGROES FORCED OFF.
IL will be reco'lected by many Of our readers
that the \ ankee prisoners taken during Wilson S
raid. when brought before the Provost Marshal
of Petersburg, uniformly stated that the slaves
were not forced tc 90. This We believed at the
time TO be false aud stated. Since then we
have received confirmation of our belief
rOuple of ladies whose residence WIS visited in
Dinw iddie state that the vandals rushed into the
house. and the first words spoken were: Are
there any Slaves heref Speak quick. or We will
burn this id house down " The negroes were
in the field blowing, and the vandals immediate
ly rushed to them cut the horses and mules from
the pIows and forced every man servant on the
place To mount and ride of with them.
In this instance all the negroes stolen made
their escape during the night. aud were back in
their places next morning