Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-03-10

are broken up; the introduction Of medi
cines is forbidden; means Of subsistence are
wantonly wasted 10 produce begeary pris-
oners are returned with contagious diseases;
the last morsel of food has been taken from
families, who were not allowed 10 carry on
trade or branch of industry; a rigid and
offensive espionage has been introduced to
ferret out "disloyalty persons have been
forced TO choose between starvation OF help |
less children and taking an oath OF allegi- |
ance TO a hated Government
The cartel for the exchange OF prisoners
has been suspended, and our unfortunate
soldiers subjected TO the grossest indignities.
The wounded at Gettysburg were deprived
of their nurses and iDhumanly left toperish
on the field. Helpless women have been
exposed TO the most cruel outrages and TO
that dishonor which is infinitely worse than
death. Citizens have been murdered by
the Buffers and McNeils and Milroys, who
are favorite Generals Of our enemies. Re-
fined and delicate ladies, have been seized,
bound with cords, imprisoned, guarded by
negroes, and held as hostages for the re-
turn of re-captured slaves. Unoffending
non-combatants have been banished or drag
ged fiom their homes to be immured in FL
thy jails. Preaching the Gospel has been
refused, except on condition Of taking the
oath of allegiance Parents have been for
; hidden to name their children in honor of
rebel chiefs Property has been confscated.
. Military Governors have been appointed
for States, satraps for provinces, and Hay
3 naus for cities.
These cruelties and atrocities of the enc
Q my have been exceeded only by their mali
D cious and bloodthirsty purposes and mach
a nations in reference TO the slaves. Early
: in this war, President Lincoln averred his
: Constitutional inability and personal unwil-
lingness to interfere with the domestic In
: stitutions of the States and the relation be.
tween master and servants. Presi lal
e considerations may have been yelled under
3 conscientious scruples. Mr.. Seward, IN
d confidential instruction to Mr.. Adams, the
y Minister to Great Britain, on the 10th ol
o March, 1862, said:
I eff the Government Of the United States
n should rreciipitately decree the immediate
IL abolition of slavery, it would re-invlgoratt
+ the declining instruction in every part o
the South
Subsequent reverses and the refractor!
;, RIGHTEOUSNESS of the seeded States caused
y a change of policy, and MIR. Lincoln issuet
:, :, his celebrated proclamation, a mere brutun
=, futnbefl, nDeratlng tHe sldNcS III IhS houi
u :, rectionary districts
n n On the 24th of June, 1776, one of tn
. reasons assigned by Pennsylvania for he
III separation from the mother country wa
i that in her sister colonies, the king ha'
~ excited the negroes to revolt, and to i'm
> brue their hands in the blood Of their mas
~ ters, in manner Impractical by civilize
u u nations. This, probably, had reference, t
~ the proclamation Of Dunm0re, the las
az AZ royal Governor of Virginia, in l775, dc
"a claring freedom to all servants or negroes
W if they would join "for the reducing of til
-, colony to a proper sense Of its duty.
Of The invitation to the slaves to rise again
ofI their masters. the suggested insurrectio
m caused, SAYS Bancroft, "A thrill Of indi
ar. nation to run through Virginia, effacing
viii differences of party, and rousing one stron
IAN impassioned purpose to drive away the,
IN solent poverty which it had beenput forth
ch A cotemporary analist,. adverting to t
same proclamation, said: lit was recel
he ed with the greatest horror in all the col
MS. MES.
fnl 0The policy adopted by Dunmore, sa
m. Lawrence in his notes on Wheaton, -
hle arming the slaves against their masters W
nd not p6rsued during the war of the Revol
its ton and when negroes were taken by 4
err English, they were not considered otherwl
MS. than as property and plunder." Eman'
If patton of slaves as war measure has be,
os severely condemned and denounced by Il
Q most eminent publicists in Europe and Il
IS United States.
~ The United States, in their diplomatic I
,s lations. have ever maintained" says Il
cir Northern authority just quoted, 'th
fer slaves are private property, and for ther
on as such, they have repeatedly received col
ct ct' pensation from England. " Napoleon
If, never was induced to issue proclamati'
ch for the emancipation of the serts in his w
asst with Russia He said Il could ha
la armed against her part OF her popt1latlo
,nt by proclaiming the liberty Of the serfs.
- great number of villages asked 1t OF me
he but refused to avail myself of measu
y y which would have devoted to death tho
zen sands of families. In the discussions gro
ne inc out of the treaty of peace of 1914 a
m the profferred mediation of Russia, t
row principle was maintained by the Unit
arm States that "the emancipation OF enem.
o'd slaves is not among the acts OF legitlm'
,ial warfare.
In the instructions from John OUR
on. Adams, as Secretary of State, to Mr. N
ec, m dleton, at ST. Petersburg, October Is, lS:
ca Ca is said ''The British have broadly ass
tn ted the right of femancipating slaves (priv,
eht propertv} as a legitimate right of war.
nse n such right is acknowledged as law of v
of by writers who admit any limitation. 1
fir right of putting to death all prisoners in c.
itv blood, and without special cause, might
,al we'll be pretended to be law Of war, or
,er, right to use poisoned weapons, or to ass
min sinate.
ali Disregarding the teachings of the appr'
and ed writer's on international law and the pr
nm tice and claims of his own Government In
can purer DAYS, President Lincoln has sought
convert the South into st. Domingo,
nge appealing to the cupidity, lusts ambit
emf. and ferocity of the slave. Abraham l.
orts colnis but the lineal descendant of Dunno
ION. and the impotent malice of each was fol
YER by the fidelity of those who, by the me me
self ness of the conspirators, would only, II
pre- cessful, have been seduced into idlen'
,ak- filth, vile beggary and death:
the But we tire of these indignities and eI
ac- mites. They are too sickening for ,reci
and History will hereafter pillory those who ct
ties, mtted and encouraged such crimes IN
do mortal infamy.
General Robert H. Lee, in recent bal
sails order, stated to his invincible legiors, t
YER seeks the cruel foe to reduce our fathers {
.od mothers our wives and children, to abb
by slavery" He does not paint too stror
civ the purposes of the enemy or the consequ
oled ces of subjugation. What has been d
g. in certain districts, is bat the prologu.
and the bloody drama that will be enacted. ]
,cen well that every man and woman should h
rna some inst convention Of the horrors of {