Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
Southern Cruelty.

When our forces kill a rebel officer in
battle, his friends are allowed. under a flag
of truce, to take the body. When we cap
ture their men and make them prisoners,
we feed them well-ifnaled, as they usually
are, we clothe them, and otherwise treat
them well. Look at the KIN ghtly courtesies
extended to that anointed horse-thief Basil
Duke as he passed through Philadelphia.
and then look at the savage barbarities
acted out over the dead body of the gallant
DAHLaREN, as set forth in the Richmond
WING. The savages of Richmond, and the
demoniac villains Of the rebel army, gloated
over the PROSTATE form of dead Federal
officer, which they stripped of every vestige
OF raiment, and permitted to remain on the
roadside until the hell-born idea struck
them that it wonld be pleasing sight to
exhibit in Richmond, and accordingly they
took the mutilated and naked spectacle to
tie sspei Capital What a time Of rejoicing
civ. -.tarderous, traitorous devils had over
the dead and lifeless remains of n poor p,otX
tai, but gallant Union officer. The Rich
Z inond Wig gives this account of the affair
vuvun,lsR vfvugnv the cry 5uruIy night and
laid at the York River depot during the greater part
OF the day yesterday, where large numbers of per
sons went to see it, 1t was in pine box clothed in
Confederate shirt and pants and shrouded in a Con-
federate blanket. The wooden leg had been re-
moved by of the soldiers 1t was also noticeable
thatths little finger of the left hand had been cut
oil. Dahgren was small man, thin. pale and with
red hair, and goatee Of the same color. His face
wore an expression of agony
About O'clock P. NJ. the corpse was removed Grnr,
hn hnNnk aud htrfal IL.
where. ......
Such, reader, is the Christian-like revenge
Of people Boosting that God is on their
side-over the fallen remains Of q gallant
foe, regular Federal officer Such is the
humanity of the proud chivalry of the
South They rob dead body of wearing
apparel; they cut off a swollen finger in Or
der to secure diamond ring; and they
convey the dead body to a DiSsectiRq Room.
TO use the bones for future purposes In
turn for all this we halt ut fine hotels and
feast these traitors and robbers of our dead
when they become our prisoners When
the mortal remains Of their officers fall into
our hands, clad in the most internal insignia
of rank peculiar to their helish organiza-
ton, we turn them over to them, and they
are conveyed to their friends, who watch
them with tears Of sad memory, and only
console themselves that they died in Il Clio
rious cause, battling for the independence
Of the South But these devils, lost to all
sense Of honor and shame blind to all the
beauties of the Christian religion and
ssteePed toNhe nose-and eAin in ,profigacy
.Aaad -eRitAeyA pat OF The dead body of.saf
officer, boast that "no one knows, or is to
know, where, and rob that body Of ,cooden
legt
Let this practice of heaping distinction
and honors upon rebel traitors, taken as
prisoners, at once cease. Such treatment of
such men only inspire contempt for US
They have no honor, they have no graft
tude, no humanity, and don't intend tho
clean thing at any time. They have shown
that they are ready to sacrifice the life of
the Government, and that their murderous
hands are turned against all who honor the
old flag. "Down with the traitors, and up
with the stars, is what we sing, and let us
act it out as well as sing it