Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-21
nm InHuMAn EnEmY.

THE IAHUMAH ENEMY.
We write the word "InhumAn," With .
tall appreciation Of how much IL nsauS,
fully believing that It 10 no stronger than
she painful truth it expresses. The foe
We have TO deal with i 40 Inhumau one.
Their own aIrocious Gords aud deeds.
prove 1t only too we'll. We doubt If lhero
Is anything In any war of civilized age
and people exceeding In atroeity the treat
mSnt visited 10 many instances upon tie
defenders Of the UniOn BY their blood
thirsty asSailSntS. The Indian or AaAantss
savage scarcely eEcSlS in bloody And msr-
GIlsSS cruelty the TillAinous eat-tbroats
who once elaimsd to be par szesrtsaes the
polite and chiValrOuH psOpls of America.
In SAyiuE this We indulge no uumeaning
hypsrbols, bat simply utter the words of
truth and SObsrueSs which almost every
dsy'S report painfully confirms.
We need enter into no Sieksning details
Of timeO and place.. The usWspGperS TEEN
with the particulars of recent atrSeitIeS
that make every humane and Christian
man 0huddsr. Let as not forget in con-
tSmPlating these recent barbarilieS, that
Others equally dreadful have been enNctsd
nom time to time, AZ not very distant In
tSTVGlS, ever since the Internal orgies Of
the rebellion began. They have refused
to give quarter to our prisoners taken Ia
battle and butehsrsd them in cold blood
Especially upon our eoIorsd soldiers, arm.
ed and placed In the hsld by the govern.
nent, and - fully sutitlsd to It's ProIse-
tiou az any other troops In itS service
they have visited the most 6sndiSh crusl-
ties, SlAuahtsring them without mercy aud
pinuing their corpSes with bsyonets to log
and trees, and leaving them there TO rot
asa ghaStly warning TO their slAyss. Thee
should know that BY such examples the!
are only hAstsniuga time when their st
Bartholomew will become their slaves sAl
DomInRo. Who does not remember how
at an early period of the rebellion the REBEL
cut oR the heads aud hands Of YANKEE
GorPSeS killed in battle, and gathered ~
the bones on old battle fields and carried
them home, - trophies OF their eAivalryS.
Such Of our prisoners a. are not butch
cred are confined In loathSons cells and
pens. and there made the objects Of insult
and abuse, and the subjects Of cold ant
hunger, aud Vsrmln. 1t 10 said Sye hun.
drsd Of them persisted in the prisons aud
pens about Richmond in the month of Peb.
FuATy alone. And no wonder; for they
suffer everything that refined and der-
iliSh cruelty eau devise except actual tor
turei aud II hanging BY the usck could be
considered torture, some Of them suffer
that 100: Nor are We sure that some OF
cur btGV6 bat Inflated eolorsd soldiers
have rot persisted At the Stako,-Eor some
Of them have been taken prtsonSts, and
even the government has no inform atisn
A. to their fate. Burning slaves at the
stake used to be AfaVorits amusement of
the ehiVAlry In some parts Of thS South,
and We should think 80 excellent an OPP
porEuuity for an iudulgsaes of II would
hardly be thrown away. We do not for
get that the savage allisS Of these civilized
SAVAgOS Gealpsd our dead at Pea Ridge,
And maSIaerSd the settlers on our north.
western frontier without SpariDg age or
TsI. In this Days paper ue print we'll.
authenticated seeouat Of the banging Of
tWouy-fOur loyal North oaroIinIanU, whose
only crime WAS that they had Joined the
army Of the Union 10 defence Of theta
rights and liberties. one of them, the &C.
count says. Wss little blus.eysd drum
mOr boy bat fourteen yearS Of aga mere
child, who like the rest met his fate With
SonpeSuro.
Bat Why prOlOng the horrid catalogue :
oonld II be strange that those Who would
eonSpirs for the overthrow Of such be-
nisssnt system Of government a. the
American Union, and the establishment on
its ruins Of SIaYsholdsrS dsspotISu,
would resort to ell these infamisI to com.
pass their eHdH Or is 1t strange that after
all this they should with an sudaeity that
San have Its Inspiration only IL the Prince
OfDArhnSSS, attribute all these atEoeItIsS
70 those that stand IN the Wsy Of the 90.