The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-04-27

NseeAasn kssallatlsa.
TIE kina-heArted and courteous Northern
Government = quite out Of temper about
Fort Pillow, end Nr. Lincoln threatens to
rcaalia&e horribly u he ands that his sub
jec4s--Whits u black-were put to the swcrd
b 0sneral Fosrest after he captured The
fort Il y. circumAtanced and situated az
~ are. decidedly amusing to observe the
holy horror which = excited in The breast %
the representative man Of Northern coarse
nsss and brutality BY tho alleged massacre
q Fort Pinow. A volume could moi mel"
slmpls recital OF the most atroeious ana
bloody deeds psspetrated BY Lincoln 8 0oFdes
a mercenaslss and cut-throats upon cur
peopae. both soldiers and unofending and
dee6nceaeoa and helpless citizens. Early IN
TIE v,r 10 have the murder of ten most
respectable citizens Of Missouri BY the Fed
essl General NcNeal because traitor to
thu South, Who had enlisted in the Federal
any. W. missing, and that traitor appeared
altef the executions had taken place. Then
there was the hanging Of Mumford; the
shooting Of Kentuekians In the service Ct
the Conledsracy BY Burnside; the driving of
helpless women and children into the Con-
fedexato lines without the means of sub
sistsace. after robbing them Of all their
earthly possession the insulting and out
raging Of women; the cold. blooded murder
Of 0outhesn planters, down to that of the
killing Of highly respectable and venera-
bic citizen Of Mississippi, beaten to death
the other day BY negro slaves enlisted by
the Yankees to increase the barbarism and
teFron Of the war; and the still later bru-
talities Of these same black soldiers in Mar
semond county, In this State These, with
the thousands Of other horrible deeds, which
are worthy the worst of demons, not to
sptak Of the Dahlgren scheme to burn and
Dack Richmond and massacre her people,
have been perpetrated by the Yankee hordte
with the appreciation of their Government.
No word Of censure for any of the brutal.
ttes Of the Yankee armies has ever been ut
tered By that Government; no word of re-
Eret or remonstrance has been uttered by
the Northern communities who have grown
rich on tho commerce and the products Of
00ut leTn toll Even such sentimentalists
- Everett and even the gentler sex, living
In luxury and such elegance as pleases the
Yankee taste, contemplate the exeesses Of
the Yankee soldiery with satisfaction, or, at
best, passive coldnesa
This interminable catalogue of inhumani-
ties include many that demanded retaliation,
and our Government omitted right-may
We not say . duty Pin not melting out TO
the bloody hell hounds who perpetrated
them blood for blood and life for life
Now, supposing the assertion true in every
particular one Of our officers avails himself
Of rule Of civilised warfare and puts to the
word part Of . garrison which had, with
- hope Of successful resistance, refused to
surrender after repeated summoning, and
.ccasioned q sacrifice of lie in the storming
of their defenees. This measure, by whith
{ saolesome lesson and example was given
faat may save the effhsion Of blood hereaf-
tar. has elected the threatening of the afore-
said chief OF the Federal deepotism.
WoA, aet him do his worst The South
isas no fears. The Northern Government
Las essayed worse calamities for the South
taan even its threatened retaliation. It he 8
tred insuuections and even famine. Yet
Tho South is stronger and more resolute than
ever. Should Lincoln retaliate it viii! only
force % to do what we had long since
light to do. and inaugurate series of re-
sah.sions which do not at present promise
10 us the chief suffering. So let the Yam
Kaes 'imbrue" - soon Is they please. The
south has long unsettled account that will
surely be presented whenever the work Is
begun