Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-27
The Bnrbarians Acknowledge it.

While Northern sympathizers and apologistI
for the rebels deny, affect TO doubt, try TO find
excuses for the Fort Pillow massacre. as is the
case with a number of the Conservative" Or
gans, including especially the Chicago Times,
Cincinnati Enquirer and New York Journal Of
Commerce the rebel journals themselves not
only do not deny it, but acknowledge and boast
of it We read in the Good Book Of class of
persons who the Apostle said, "gloried in their
own shame :" but here we have people, living
in the midst of civilization and Christian land
who are so sunken, debased, and brutalized by
the practice of human slavery, as to glory in ac-
tual savagery and bloody barbarism
The Richmond Enquirer of the 10Th. contains
dispatch from Fort Pillow, dated April 18th,
stating: Forrest and Chalmers attacked the
fort on the llth. The garrison consisted of 300
white and 400 negro troops The fort refusing
TO surrender, II was carried by storm and both
columns entered the fort simultaneously. An
indiscrminate slaughter followed One hundred
prisoners were captured; the balance were slain
The fort ran with blood, and many jumped into
the river and were drowned or killed while at
tempting to escape. One hundred thousand dol
lars worth of property was taken, and six guns
were captured Confederate loss seventy five"
From Plymouth North Carolina, we have SINH
lar reports. Several hundred colored troops it is
said, were captured there on the 10th, by the reb
els. Doubtless many of them, and the white Off
GERS who commanded them, were cruelty murder
ed as was done at Fort Pillow. How much longer
will our Government and our amiable President
continue to treat these psople-these fends in
human shape-as q civilized and Christian people,
according to them all the amenities and courte
sizes of civilized warfare They but laugh at our
generosity, our magnanlmity and lenity towards
them and regard it as weakness. And II is weak
ness and one that is costing us dearly in time. in
treasure and in the lives of our soldiers. Lenity
towards traitors and rebels, in all civil wars, is
IL. L.
this more strikingly true that in the present war
There is but one remedy for this rebellion. and
has been but the one since the first gnn was fred
and that is-as Col. Coburn said the other night In
his speech at Masonic Hall physical force
Nothing else should be thought of. The rebels
should be treated as savages and outlaws-which
indeed they are. There is nothing too bad, too
cruel, too dastardly for them TO do. They are en-.
gagged in desperate struggle of life or death, tri
umph or ruin, fully determined to conquer, or
falling do all the injury and damage they can,
even TO the ruin and destruction OF the whole
country, and everybody in 1t Their motto il
Triumph or Ruin
Let us adopt similar motto: Suppression or
determination If the alternative Is, as Mr.
Long the other day in Congress said it was
"the acknowledgment Of the Southern Confcder-
acy, or Subjugation and determination" then
we say, and will say 1t forever-Subjugation and
determination! What great loss would it be to
the world to have such people as now carry on
this rebellion extermin2ted from the face of the
earth? If that is the alternative, and the only
one, then we say extermnate 1t would be a
thousand itimes better that the whole South
should be extermnated and the country made a
barren waste, than that such people should tri.
umph and should break up and ruin such Gov.
eminent and Nation as ours As to the rebels
themselves we say exterminate them anyhow.
II will be better than their submission. Let them
be wiped out, and better class of people allowed
to take their place. Let the South be regenera
ted.-TndiaRdpolis Gazette