Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-06-23
A Freuehmnn in DIxIe--Baron Munchausen
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A Frenchmnn in DIxIe--Baron TIuncbausen
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A book has just been published in Paris
protesting to describe affairs in the SoutO,
as observed by French officer. Here are
few specimens Of the Muhchsusen stories
1t contains:
At Fort Wagner, he says, the black
troops engaged on the Federal sid were
placed in the first ranks, and gosded On to
the combat by the bsyonets of those behind
them, and any tne who Teeoiled was, with
out hesitation, shot or trsnsfEed =
Yankee friends who o. u ms
guard. -Ormed the rear
n
urapaud has been told, or has made
M nice little story Of affection. inc
soene ia Washington A number OF eX-
changed rebel prisoners, on their way
| from The prisons Of the North towards
Richmond, arc stopped, while passing
White House, to be reviewed by President
lincoln, while crowd Of curious ny anks
oaxe on in fiendish triumph. Among the
crovi one Of the prisoners notices negro,
previously his slave. The Iatter Iecog,
1i1es his former master with delight, and
thus speaketh: "MRssa. you are sunerlng
for the necesssries Of life. Here are hun
dred dollars; take them, and as soon as
the war is finished, when eau leave the
Federal army, will gladly return to your
plantation"
The book in question is evidently written
to influence the French in favor OF q re-
cosuition Of the Confederate States by
their Government. Everything is painted
in the brightest colors for the South. The
Confedsrstes are represented as devoted to
Jeff Davis and the war, and plenifully
aupnlied with means of resisting the North
including cannon, foundries and powder
mills. At the government bakeries ol
Riohmond, $50 barrels Of biscuit are turn
, ed out daily-sll by steam-for govern
ment use. The fouris obtained by specis
. agents.
M. Crapsud informs his readers ina
. The government OF the Confederate Stste
> Ia purelv consfitutionsl-thst there ha
: never been any despolism in it, and tina
: JEFF. Davis and his people are alike oppos
: ed TO a dictatorship. One would think, t
! read NJ. CraupRud, that the confederat
4 States was just about the freest ana hsP
: NEST country on the globe. The pres
there etjoys illimltsble liberty-priVst
a citizens are never deprived OF their free
dom-neither state nor general govern
!. ment has an official organ-anybody cal
4 saw anything he Plsases about the gov
ernment and its officials. The opposition
= is composed Of disappointed men VIII
! have mot obtained political perferment.
d. TIE Army or THE NORTH.
Nv this title the coDfederates designst
J the forces Of Gen. Lee. NJ. Crapsud visit
a ed the srmy, and was introduced to Eve
= and A. P. Hill. He found the army in q
excellent condition, provisions sbundan
:. sanitary conditions admirable, and every
thing betokening strength and predictin
q victory. The Federsls on the other hsnC
are unlicensed savsges who murder nj
il Oroes. insult woman, and are addicted
- shooting women and children while the
- ara in their houses quietly tss ing suppe
and the husband and fathers, away in II
army. cannot defend them. Here is spt
cimen OF the stories told:
N H hesrd,n writes the lying or dupe
,t Crspsud, "the Governor Of North Carolin
/. saw one evening at Gen. Cooper's tent, tbs
n during the numerous inoursions made b
4: the Federals, they would steal whole fan
1t lilies ofnegrOes, who would at the eariiel
s opportunity run away and get back
Ie their masters. The Yankees then, in the
d rage, would snatch from their mother
. arms all the little negro babies and tho
h them into the water"
l. HFhe Yankees we're just as cruel" q
8. cording to Crapsud, "to the whites On
g. transport laden with rebel prisoners, mo-
+ Of whom was sick with the smallpox, col
g. trsoted in the vile holes where they bs
t. been imprisoned by the Unionists. Il
y latter amused themselves by tying the we
I, prisoners to the sick ones, thus insurin
Te the spread Of the contagion; and Whe
r, both Of the unlucky men were thus il
il fectsd, and the mslsdy was ct its heigh
IN they we're then thrown overheard ami
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