The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-23
Realisation.

Retaliation. ,.5as-..1
Rebel papers never use the name of
ABRAHAa LIScoLs without coupling with
il some vile epishek Tyrans despet,
hare long since played ont Y and the
more opprobious epithets denoting the
extreme ferocity of his nature are now
in vogue. OF course they mean nothing,
and effect nothing except to incite the
more ignorant classes of the rabble they
call their "army" to fendish outrages
such as Quantreu committed at his sack
ing Of Lawrence.
The Government Of the United States
has been too lenient in its war policy
has allowed too much Humanity to per-
14.v te its system of operations. War, is
:. le1IibIe thing, and should be Waged
-,cr@s.lineir. The rebels so understand
il md Aa% e, SO acted. They have prac-
t;-ru 10 most horrid cruelties from the
frs, They haye carried destruction and
de-" and devastation wherever they
". -:| me were SO helpless as to
t<..J. .s.... 1ty. The prison ships of
81 r.; .:s. were nothing compared to
tn,. ..... .-.-.4-.5 in which the soldiers
~ c. - = IL: rebel capital. There
... .. ....- literally starving-and
f..'.:.. ..-.s their friends North are
.-... .~.: iuEu..,,-. We have ex-
...,t~" 49,. areum, ut, persuasive or
;.,.~otc..a.-- Il trying 10 accomplish an
" 9- oud now the ragged rufians
Wiz .v>e the head Of the Rebel Gov
c.nnI"n, a"o impudent enough to refuse
ali communication with our Commission
or, Gen Batter, because lac has been
''outl4wvd by the chief conspirator, JEFF:
Davis!
What shall be done next? Shall we
allow Our brave soldiers to still suffer?
Are We powclless 10 effect anything for
them p We have $4,000 rebel prisoners
in our hands, and they are to-day living
better, at lLe expense Of our Govern
rnent, than they could live in rebeldom
il they possessed all the paper rags issued
from the traitor treasury. Why not re-
taliate! But short time ago, when jeff.
Davis had ordered the execution of one
of our officers, convicted of being a SPY,
Cen. Lee prevented it because the life of
his son. a prisoner in our hands, was en-
dangered thereby.
A correspondent Of the New York
H:rakt, detailinga conversation had with
Gen. Butler in regard to this matter of
exchange, says:
He tells me that the rebel Commits
sioncr Of Exchange, Mr.. Guild, insists that
unless the United States give up all
claims which they have made in behalf of
ther own soldiers VINO are prisoners of
war. consent to sacrifice the colored. sol
der, pass ooer their officers for punishment,
under a special law made for their pun
i~hment by the rebel Congress, and en-
p}oy mother Commissioner of Exchange
10 represent the United States, no ex-
change can be effected. The General |
thinke that there is but one way to meet
this new state of things, and that is by
The GtCr1tSt retaliation. He sneercd at the
threat held out.in jefferson Davis proc
lamation against himself and his officers. !
and declared that if a hair on the head
Of one ofhis officers or soldiers be injured,
except in just warfare, The day that that
is dore shall be day s. sorrow and
mourning for all men included IN the So
called Confederate States of America"
He now thinks that our goveTnuent,
having exhausted every form of appeal to
the rebel government to exchange pFis-
oners whom they cannot save from starv-
atlon-a state of things which all FrRel
on the usages and laws of nations declare /
TO be just grounds for the men so held by |
the enemy TO be liberated there is moth. |
ing left to the United States but to au. I
thorlze that a sufficient number Of rebel |
officers be placed under such keeping |
and put upon such diet as shall in all re- !
spect= correspond to the treatment as to |
clothing food and fuel that our wretched |
ln~R received in the stencil. houses of the !
rebel capital did not til st&. the Gen. |
eral in any degree excited rat he was
emphatic in all that he said in regard to
'"talation. And think he but inter
- ~ ~ his nothing more than the
q ..' m of the whole army.
X }Ae time suspicious for
men; and it il. The
.'Aausted negotia-
Hers Of pardon,
10 "business."-t
At the railying cry
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