Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-03-03
From La Patrie, (Paris) Jan. II, 1864.
(semi- official Journal.)

nav situation and dangers The Russian feet be
honors and learning this the question suggeste
with sur what sympathy what secret tie could ex
Semocrsts of the new worId2 alliance was possbl
between the famous champions of desposm and tn
SO highly Wanted apostles Of liberty =.
But we consider atentivey the actual situation
of and Of MuscoVy if examine the true char
acter and consequences Of the sruege N whe
both are engaged finish by discovering so nuch ana
gy between their policy much resemblance IN the oh
ecs at which they aim, much conformity Id 'ne mean
thay employ, that astonshment ceases. ,
What first strikes in IN, Of he Poonsc is s
obstina of the aIugge on non sues OF me Atlantic tn
equal contempt Win of humanity are amDeS oGSe
oot The altering hope had been entertained that the
is shout to the battlefield their benifcent in
thence But although be freed from portion OF
to courteous duel two armies, will
all odioas accomplishments OF massacre and pilsg
when becomes in Poland or Am9fca MOI 1sI strug
the spectacle offered by Poland for the last ten
months Eloquent voices have described the fright
fu tcenes enacted Villages pundered castles sack
ed cottages We have been shown the soldiers
wounded shooting priests cutting the throas OF the aged
whipping women in word, changing the hoe country
the Baltic, into vast field of murder and flames.
We have been to witness the bloody tragedies
Wengrou and of Torrzou of OjiGu aud of WosaSce We
have seen IA, ards Poles fight ike heroes Ike
rartyTs Padiewhki dsdanfuIy rejecting preferred par
don marching willingly to execution. SierskUwski,
MORALLY wounded dragged almost expiring 20 the scafod
We the corpse Of the intrepid Bonega dragged
from tomb insutod protaped cut 20 pieces. " have
admired tho courage ot tn &c noble cins 4eot their
stl, uttered curses on their executiCnere.
have been specially fred with Indignation against
tao flexible ieutersDts the Gar against the Mel CHESS
men whom he has charged establish order the
Polish PROVINCES, who haya cruelty performed their
task; the MouraVfi, the BeIga the Anncnko1 and tie
Dioto wskois.
But let Us admit it. these deplorabe acts, human
versy has had, Isrhaps fess pat than lhe force OF
things for, several thousand leagues away, under
" amongst reepe of different race MANNERS
aud religion analogous situation lag resned Ia fact
ST identical In widely circulated pGIodiGai the
has been hazsIded that IN the United states
up present time not crop of blood had been shed
except the battle field Yet we cannot fofGes the
OF New York, the raVages OF the guerilla
chief uantEe nor the terrible Tcpsals OF the excited
population but was he not worthy TO command h9rae
CossaCkthat Gen. Steele, VINO, sent to relieve Mis-
slssppi of the Confederate Colonel FerRu
reVenged himself for biz inability 70 [caGn ms enemy
by destruction of plantations, the sack 81 helr dTe
Ing the destruction Of factories, the ILcon OF
immense damage on tins whole district assigned his
Dano Was Eota worthy rival of the Lo#cnlns aad the
EOuIaviee, found that Colonel Iurchn' Tho GA arrV
ing at lbens in Alabama, an open town where At
tempt defence had been made said to his he
respectable wealthy yOu0G ladies of the State
receiving their education, " no" is the time my
uUy reward you for your PrVat!onh and your faSues
give you tul license tor two hours some days pre-
vousy tho neghboThood OF the same to"n had win sSeo
SIMILAR atrocities Federal General McCo0k, ha7IGG
been killed skigmsb, The ONO Genera IN honor q
ais obseqaies delivered Whoe Eiage 70 LUG uaeS, anu
burnt shot tuTS hundred and thirty nVe lnonensiVe
citizens.
Must cite the csae venerable Kentucky Senator,
William Fd, murdered under the eyes OF his Ee, be-
cause he would not or could reveal TO the soldiers of
Gen AcNie the route by the rebel troops Or the
death OF the honest citizen of New York killed in coffee
speaking III OF President Lnco!n before soms OH
GERS
But it viii be said that these are isolated crimes, and on
" prove that there are in America elsewhere fanatics
and madmeu But American jury has shared the muir
der of DoRney by acquiring his assasans tut the
made itself the accomphCe OF urchn, Dy
BY promoting him to Bgadier General some weeks at
Athens but Repub lean orators at their
meeting the Federal officials in their proclaim atoms cease
naHe the passions OF the people aud TO excite them
acts of violence. preacher has oared 10 say
THAT he had no doubt the decree OF emahcipauoL OF me
negroes would be the signal for massacre IKE ths OF 81
Domingo bat that he preferred the saugner OF an the
white Ct the South with their wives ara cLoren, 10
any tulher peril to the Union In semi otncal Journal
the Washington globe may be resd Inc h1r TUE
die the last man, let their memory perish Wl tnen
desOated fields be given to better race
in February last the too notorious Gen. Bntler said to
fellow citizens of Massachusetts, VINO were greetng
New Orleans, that 1.-THE only means OF res
Eoring the Union 10 externnate the psneLs eTnn9
their lands and distribute them opg the sol
dsrs" Some days afterwards, Gen aallecK, nc" Mtns
ter of War denouncng equal hate those who for
independence In the South, and those VINO, IN Inc on
"a arms will crush the Southern rebels and then
trampe heels Northern traitors The same OF
gave 5th March the following Instructions to MAYOR
General Rosecrans "Redouble yoUr severity towards DIS
dsoyay wherever they find it. Especially must they re-
member that whoever is net evidently with ns Is agans
These recommendations only been too wen OBJ
At Baltimore for nstaLce, where Genera Scnench
commands the whole city has been Tor year sotiGhen
with deep Whoever complains OF the evils OF war
does admire the conduct OF the Adninlsra
tlon whoever ooes EoE lsJUiGe tUy 80 On the orders
subaern officer, be thrown into PRISON, ex!ed sno-
spies feared strangers are distrus!ed even eus are
avoided By the recent traveller writes that
have Venice in it's worst days 10 io an
idea Of irritating tyranny revolving an esponaSe
In the Southern States, as IN Poland, tee women
taken grand and nObo part IN the patonRl move
ment From the beginning Of the they pass nights III
nursing the wounded, IN weeping the Qead. Ansie Is
scarcely not in mourning Tor relative yet IL Is 10
them that President Davis confidently addresses hmse
he asks that they should stimulate the war
ardor of his fellow citizens and put musReE II the
hands Youngest brothers, their last sous IL
they tco who, III the districts oNerIun oy Tue
armies protest the last against the triumph OF iorc
that they are as Poland subjected extreme severity
A long list might made of women who have neen
iIre8ted, thrown into prison, or coIdemned TO exile
one for waYDg her handkerchief to passing prisoners
another for smiling st the moment when the luntEa pro
of Federal officer passing under hef Wh90W
larger number for bewailiDg too loudly Tor sheqalng
openly for the fate OF friends or reletes
before General MouTavief had thought OF lnscr02g ne
police registers as pablo prostitutes the !aeS " P
VINO wore mourning in spite OF his prohDHlon, uen' bu
Ter bad ordered his officers and men " 10 trest as
Of the town. plying her VOCATION any sO,ont a Ion
should dare TO address TO them word ges'e VI o
of contempt. LOrder OF 10th aay, !ooL Gstofs ho
soldiers of the Gar had dreamed oI lntelqlc5 ~ |
Polish the OF certain forms aId coiorS LOT ne
and hats, Butler, at New Orleans and schemes al
Baltimore had carefully prOsCrbed and white rlbands
aud sugar plums wrapped II paper OF these Two
coors. In the application of all these measures me nus
Ean generals have We admit, surpassed the AnefcE1
ocers but the latter belongs the honor o lnFenns
theu
Property does Lot long remain sacred when the person
has ceased to Ee Rvoleble When ths CoDQuerer the
absolute master of the honor, the liberty and the Life OF
The varqushed it Is impossible for him not to consider
himself also, the legitimate master OF thor fortune and
syerv war of determination also, OF necessity,
oonsc 4tIon The Russian Generals nave never doubted
their night to appropriate to Rnt Sd OF
the rebels and dispose OF it at 6uG II ana mol
suffice to plUgder the active partsans OF TAG
poverty could not brighten men tnat ui1 o eS Hea'a
condgCaton TO all their res tiyes doubtless IN the pc
that families thus threatened with ruiz would recall t.
their such OF their Members had taken up
But all that existed of devotion to their country he'd not