Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-07

Among the elected are Fayette McMullen
of the Fourteenth Virginia district, and O
number of gentlemen whose names are IA
miliar as prominent members of former
United States Congresses of lS60-6l. Among
these are w. Il. Smith. w. II. Cobb, and
Pugh, Of Alabama; Humphrey Marshall
and Burnett, of Kentucky Conrad, of Lou
isiana; Singleton, of Mississippi; Gilmer,
of North Carolina; Miles and Boyce, OF
South Carolina; II. S. Foote, Atkins, and
J.V. Wright, of Tennessee; Gholson, Bah
cock, Rives, Dejarnette, and others, of Vir-
ginia.
THE EORT PILLOW MASSACRE.
from the Richmond Examiner, April ss.l
But it is evident that Lincolns
heart was not in his Introductory congratu-
lations, to 'these many people," nor In his
new edition of the old fable. The Confed-
crates have succeeded I'm establishing raw,
''raw," raw" on his callOus hide; have at
last succeeded in making him feel his re-
sponsibility. Nor is the responsibility a
pleasant one. Indeed, it is so unpleasant
that while "he fears, he believes" yet he
takes care to say that he does not know that
the report of the Fort Pillow massacre is
true. ITO take the life of any one of their
prisoners, on the assumption that they mur-
der ours, when 1t 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 begin
ming of the war. Why does it suddenly
become too serious, too cruel? Simply be-
cause we have shown that we, as a people,
are heartily tired of policy dictated part
ly by sentimentality, partly by foolish
Difference to the good opinion of the
world, partly by an official awe at
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sacrificed too long the lives of our brave
soldiers and our solemn sense of duty
We are not nation of butchers. We are
not, like ancient Pistol, thrsting "to suck,
to suck, the very blood to SUCK" But we
have to deal with a race of butchers, of
Pistols, of McNeils, and Buffers, and we
must mete out to them strict. justice, even
the letter of the law. "All hell shall cape
| for this" says Lincoln in effect. "Retribu-
ton shall certainly come" and these brave
words may mean something if we recede
from our position. They may mean some
thing, if the fortune of war or the misman-
agement of our military leaders should give
the Yankees an overwhelming advantage in
prisoners. Repeat Fort Pillow. Repeat
Plymouth few times; and we shall bring
the Yankees to their senses, and, what is
even better, our Government will rise to
proper sense of its position as an organ of
nation, and no longer act as If it were the
junta of set OF revolted prisoners.
vlcE-PREsIDENT STEPHENS.
(From the Richmond Examiner April al
Vice-President Stephens has disappointed
his admirers and mortified many of his
friends, only to crafty his enemies and
those of his country. North Carolina buff
faloes, West Virginia, and East Tennessee
traitors, and the great mass of the public
enemy hold up this speech as important
evidence of the despotism that now con-
trolls the confederacy. We cannot now
point to any expression of hope or success
of our cause; and certainly, so far as he is
concerned, should Providence vouchsafe
final triumph, Mr.. Stephens can point to no
moral or material aid that he has rendered
the cause. Mr.. Stephens cannot deny that
the liberty of Speech" atleast, is still per-
mitted; and future history will not fail to
record the fact that this liberty was greatly
abused by the second officer of the Confed-
crate government. Mr.. Stephens does not
regard the currency act as either "proper,
wise, or just" He has not suggested any
amendment or pointed out any change; he
will not undertake to say that public neces-
sity did not demand extraordinary legisla-
tion; but he has utterly neglected to in
form his countrymen in what particular the
currency act was "neither proper, wise, nor
just" Was his object to create general dis
satisfaction, to paralyze the arm of the gov
ernment, without Indicating the remedy or
suggesting a relief for the evil he saw, or
fancied he saw? Mr.. Stephens is entitled
to hold his own opinions, and to express
them. The same right and privilege be-
longing to others to criticise Mr.. Stephens,
and to analyZe his motives, induce us to
publish this morning a communication from
"Observer" upon the past political course
of the Vice President. If this review of |
Mr.. Stephens previous politics should ex-
cite distrust as to his loyalty, his late speech
cannot be plead in denial of the charge.
When the Vice President no longer consid-
ers his official position as restraint to his
assaiing the government and as justifying
him in upholding noisy, rickety, crotchety
Governor, he cannot be surprised that there
should be found those who do not admire
such evidence of patriotism. We do not class
Mr.. Stephens with Mr.. Holden, but the
North Carolina buffalo has placed himself
beside Mr.. Stephens, and win not be shaken
off. Such fellowship and company do no
good to the loyalty Of any man.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE FEMALE SURGEON.
tFrom The Richmond Examiner, April 26.I
Miss DR.. Mary Z. Walker, the Yankee
Surgeoness Ito coin continuation word),
at Castle Thunder. does not like her quar-
ters at all. She wants to go home. She
does not like the fare-it Is not wholesome.
She does not like the officers-they are too
rebellious. She does like the negroes-oh,
the dear, black creatures! She spends her
confinement, not in reading medical works
on saw-bones and the treatment of camp
itch, but devouring all the novel nonsense
and trash she can get hold of with negro
character in them. She is very curious to
know what the Richmond papers publish,
and, like Mrs. Lincoln, anxious to know,
what they have to say about u.s."
Her costume in the castle Is the same in
which she was received, and she will not
substitute it for one more becoming her sex.
No, she will not; she would die first. This
dress may be "Bloomer," or it may be the
latest miscegenation style--blue broadclotf,
short undershirt, trimmed with brass but
tons; Yankee uniform hat, with cord and
tassel, and IN. s." on it; surgeons green
silk sash, worn over the left shoulder and
across the left breast, fastening on the left
side; over the short frock, a blue cloth mil
| itary overcoat and cape; upon her feet,
boots reaching to the bottom of her dress,
and forming junction about midway be-
tween the ankle and thigh. Some Of this
toggery is laid aside in the castle, and the
female NJ. d. has hung up her cap as though
the length of her stay were uncertain. An
astounding circumstance In connection with
her case has Just been divulged by cor