New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-02-26

our countrywomen, as simple question
whether they would like to exist under
that ben;gnant rule of the emancipatcd
negro, who has received bounty, and
been inspired by the prurient brutality
of Gen. Butler. There was tradit-
ional sort Of talk about Marshal Hay
nau once, when pothouse politicians
took their cue, very naturally, from
draymen there have been woundrous
horrors OF anecdote concerning things
seen, said and heard IT. Poland, where
of only rumors loom vaguely through
prismatic mists but If we want to see
the knout definitely in operation, the
cost of an admission to the show is the
cost of Il voyage to the Federal "fract-
ion of Virginia.
Here, perhaps, climax may be i'm
agined But the hagellation Of these
unhappy, harmless creatures who: by
the way, were also threatened with the
eallows, WAS no more than prelude to
tho heroism Of Abraham Lincoln's
adopted children. These "black an
gels next "delibcrstely burnt up in
house on the roadside woman and her
r1ur children f,r some fanclel insuIt:'
and Vt is naiveiy recorded by our cor
respondent, 'The march is said to
have been a most successful one that
part of the country which has been
visited by these troops is almost total
ly ruined" Such is Federal success
ia the provinces. Federal "authority"
in town is thus exemplifed and assert.
ed: "They seize everything, furni
ture, property, &c, belonging to any
one not now here, no matter who wife
widow, parents ofall who now are, or
have heen in the Confederate service
One family, with husband horelessl.y
ill., and eight children, one just two
months old, has been ordered into the
streets the husband is dying"
Banks are converted into barracks
churches and chapels are cleared of
their congregations ministers are ex
PEELED from their pulpits; and thus
g cs on the triumph, if we must call It
a triumph, of Union principles in V,r-
ginia. For these are Federal victories.
The North cannot march to Richmond
or break up the gallant Confederacy
which has f,ugbt war for the rights
of nations through three affecting ycnrs
but 1t can privilege an epu]etted scoun
drel to insult the ladies Of New Orleans;
it can equip a gang Of hulki"g negroes
to hustle young girls aad children off
the pavemcnts of Norfolk A; it can send
forth swarm of savages to strip and
whip and burn helpless women by the
road side !; and there its glory ends
The British Government was bitterly
denounced when in the last century it
hazarded the employment of Red In
dian mercenaries in New World war.
But the Red Indian Of that epoch was
Paladin in contrast with the illiterate,
brainless. besotted negro, bounded on
to ferocitv by the customary Yankee
stimulus, and bidden to regard ven
geance as a duty.
Could the human Imagination con-
ceive any thought more revolving than
that of a city given up to terrorism of
drunken negroes, to whose passions
were superadded the swagger, slang
and ribaldry of New York. Ifnot, we
may we'll pity that portion of Virginia,
which figures on the mapas loyal. 1t
Is loyal in the sense in which the ashes
of the women and children burned on
The roadside are loyal in which the
two whipped women, making their con-
fession in dread Of the gibbet, are 10y
al in which the inhabitants Of New
Orleans were loyal when they ceased
defying the Federal officers. Perhaps,
We might add, in which the enlisted ne.
gro himself is loyal. His loyalty con-
sists in Dragging himself as indepe end
cnt of his white officers; in debating
loudly whether now is good time for
killing all the white men or not )" in
brandishinp muskets beneath sacred