Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-07-29
For the Enquirer.

- VOL haVHh tllLt tuo EOQcEhl RUNOlu-
meat Las from thu beginning Of this war em-
rlo?sd their o~onvicts from their penitentiariss,
the occupants Of their jails, as we'll as The
bssc.t characters to bs found in Europe and
thor uwn lurgs cities. Among these they
have sent others Of less desperate characters.
Nobody will forget the ~usations paid to Col.
Billy Wilson. discharged from the penitsnti-
AIRY in New York u command a regiment Of
Iosperadoes like himself; the orgies they
solemn; zsd at Tsmmany Hall, in April, 1861,
aad how the clergy bounded them Oh with
! ASSURANCES vi salvation il they succeeded in
ie4+er-ips- the lAorncs::li rcB" % property Or
| Southern peopl1. Among the many, not only
| ChsS.r, Heeuher. and tho AbolitioniSts, en-
| mass. but men like prs. Philips, Finton.
! Potts. Hodge. Spring, 3. IL. Ting mud many
| others uf all tho Churches. who, up to that
lime. had been supposed to have sorns Chris
tian splril rs vol as tho usuol proportion OF
| cirilia al huuarity. These were the classes
Of Ieuple they were urging forward to eogaee
IFS n ~N.urinre to lie conducted on the prlDc!-
! ,.!va Of civilized nations. Men who could be
nader no legal control at hame. In times OF
reaca, were seut TO make wsr upon a people
whom, prior to that time, they had called
"hrethren," both IN religion and Ill politics !;
o people to whose door they did nat and could
,mt charge one single act If injury 20 them,
actual Or intended from the beg,nEics Of their
pnrinl connection ,up to thnt period. 4 p"np!o
whom their statesmen and press had nbu' ei
with the vilest epithets Of the language, to-
wards whom they bal exercised tho greateat
injustice. politic lily. taxing them nhelns'i'
by uuscuerous drvicrs ir their VA benefit.
nlt ,:tly refusing to execute tho conditions at
the constitutional impact with Lheiu, but by
thoir o@n State laws, making it penal for sny
; o: them to demand tbs execution Of the laws
made 10y Congress FOR the protection Of their
proper,y, and against whom they had instl-
gated IN nsmrectinusry lad but o year be-
fore. which had hee,, lauded for its Objects,
gal lrncn,eL rnlY Tor its failure to cause the
slaves 70 rise. and cut taa throa;s u: 'he'!
nrucr.. A panpis who had po iJYel tbs
G.i.a that tor upwards 0i forty years they
hal quietly Submitted II tha lux uul burdens
imp..,i u:.pa th!hi. und for twenty-five He,rs
had L.rrua lla at,isc %! every kInd that the
English rs, tuaa. uruid cspre-s. all OF which
thv smrw 10 Ice la!sc.
ihi- ~yc"plr. tlu- inj1:ei and abused for 80
!aag = timo, Hcro denied ttr-i' equal rights III
tho turrit .ric,, aud vera actually threatened
with III: daesrurfi"n Of Oie-.hirl Of their
property: aid il that property warc III siaTra,
the ancestors ii these Northern men had kid
uepped them in q state Of hatbarisin. and s0'd
them TO the : ,u,h. who lad trained their pos
tari,y +, civil IL. alton. Carittianity, content
meat aud happicess equal or superior - that
Of an If tia wnrking ,,assos IN anv country
II tie sl"ls. IL Tus not tocnnse The South
had injafei them. hut raradoxioa' rs 1t may
.putar. il Wsa because they hut Ia'6hyed and
in;aret he Snnti, ttat tins ruthless horde Of
in ,hirIs ard c~onvioIs were hurled against
theni. Uau any Of ,inss learned D1ctars IT
D.rini,y, by any casuist7y. exonerate them
| soIees from the horrible deeds these vile
~r!asaea Of soldiers have pcrpetrated upnh O
r~eacelul ard unntenting lccpls-u poa W.
men aud children, upan private property. from,
| kitchen lurnituro up ~ the inhut lsTalry und
work If art, which have ull br"n p~lnndtri
from Southern holmes, to l@ transmitted u
lankr6in'h W implements fur relic or urra-
III iii.
DID thcy. nr any nae ur lh IA. suppose thai
.uy nn, of there ~,oiIyicts w,.uld la restrained
ur rnulJ restrain his comrades irJin the aust
Lisloiicl e~scsssus Dad they imagine tina.
the ~esan.l, If the tu-ur at that cltsb would
tend q Jrt-r their usso,iu'eI from similar
%drimrsf Did they suppose that Billy Wilson.
aud many Others of his GLASS, could or would
ATTEMPT ~ restrain and prevent thsse demons
10 human slhpu irJm tho commission OF deeds
d;sgrrc.ful TO tho Federal r~atiol;, Gs a civil
lied Ieoplc3 On the contrary, did they not
| hound them on, rcgh''ilh-s Of consequences.
and did lot Or. Tying assure Billy Wilson OF
hi- ~eter"nl salvation II Ia but fulfilled his
1u,ssiurT nnd thai. t15, 1ffer the "fgtss VI
T.muhanY tt.il, when hc hald up iEs ~ah.h q
L,4 regimtnt. " Do gdH see THAR "IEaS
az madg hI2 II III The South" which visa
published with applause by 81! Tie r"rars,
~secn|a' aid TeiiGlGMa. @it!. Lhi "lo ,aJepiijii,
/, the atty Vi Now iIrk.
Can MY Of !hesa, aud With very few tIaep
ucns, omn any Of all tho church ministers
,f to-, North, when they read tho ac-
c0unt- g;yan fy their OWL writer's,
d the rotberies, plurderings, murders
ara9ns and rupcs committed by their armies
on oil men, women. cuildren and non-com-
bat.nts, place their hands upon their hearts
spd CAV, 81 lros MT | that did it" In the
day Of tina! %aooount, when these div!nes and
iheir hIcks appear 10 give account OF the
dad. done OH ,l,1 earth, uiay nrl the words
Of Nathan unto David tie applied To hauh aud
every rne 1T them nn tha saGie pfin3lple.
mo ht ID V az itSsl. WIN TO- yeS' f'
zlilm tacsi per &c"
Nor rsu they hcps oT e1pcot to oSeafs Gods
Just resribution. according 20 ths doctrines
they preach, but have 60 grossly ~vitllted
ia pra ,tioe = for that retribution is already
bssun under the providence Of God under
our VI eyes.
Ii il known that tho Federal prisoners.
amounting to upwards OF 10000. are kept in
q stockade enclosure, Of course q large pro.
port,on Of them are these rery jail birds and
rnnricfs, With u mixture Of other mercenaries
VIII, hn.e undertaken /, kill people for pay
al promircu0usly ooutinsd t1ssther--1nd they
make their own abode a perfect hell upon
sar.h and thar rulers. more wicked than
hey, hsya refused to mske exchanges till
heir nuG;1ur is 80 lnrKs thst, with the best
care. mu!ti:n les mu-t suffer. yet instigarei
by their malicious hearts, they ucmiuis nil
anrts Of crimes against each other they rob.
they p!uuler, they beat and they kill each
other. FRESH a~rriVals nre seized Gnd instant
ly pinnderti Of everything, eVon of their out.
side oiulhing. They are ~ thiekly massed
tl.At no "i,u, nor anything DO HIS. cin be safe
for one m,,nent, night VI day.
They ars going from bad II worse, and have
b6nGma III unHlanageatle that the Confederate
authorities will or havs appealed to Lincoln
{" authorize tribunals Among them tor their
own pre,-r 2ati1h -!
Ara moi rhsso sunlo If tho fruits Ut the sesd
s.1n Ill 1861 al tho North by the ps0ple and
Their pu!pits aud Only oons of them, for how
insuy lives hs7s heoa sacrificed aggressively
.ai d.t7nsigsiy i'll th. past three years by the
-w5iI. ~ ~iiioase, hJ accident and crime, and
With how :iai.y crimaa of the BLACKLIST char
aotcT. uFau SoIion, children and old men by
this multitude ct human fonda in human
ioru,. sent out against n peaceful and
unofsnding people, whom their violation Of
compact, wrong, i~'justico aud abuse con.
,inusi, and il Increasing from year to year for
nore than forty years, had driven to the un-
desired but necessary alternative to ssc5de
from thsir association, and to retiTo in
reaso fam their political connection, a right
admitted by al. and i1estimsbls III 7elus to
r or. and r. Iii rrGnkihd.