The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-05
.sauee for the Gs.se, sauce Tor the Gaader.'

..S..ee for the Gs.se, sauce Tor the Gander."
The whole Yankee press unites its
voice in one long, loud, savage yell over
the burning Of Chambersburg by Gene
raj McCausland. 1t is pronounced an
''infamy" by one Of these papers. 1t is
denounced as most scandalous and a
most unchristian outrage by them all
1t is some comfort, at least, to find out
that although where the people oil the
Coufederacy are concerned the Yankee
race have lost all power of distinguish
ing between right and wrong, yet when
the question is brought home to their
own firesides they, in some sort, recover
il. The Yankee government, during this
whole campaign, has been acting upon
the avowed determination to render the
South one vast desert, and for that pur.
pose has turned loose upon il the most
atrocions bands Of rntiians that were
ever employed by any civilized power
They have organized murder, arson, rob
berry and rape into system, and have
employed them as regular adjuncts and
assistants in carrying out the plans of
Grant and Sherman. They have laid
whole districts in ashes and reduced
whole communities to beggggary and now,
it seems, when the chalice is COM
mendsd to their own lips, they discover
it is poison; when their own system Is
adopted, they discover that it is infa-
nous; when their own weapons are
tlraed upon them, they become aware
that they are not lawful Nothing Of
this was heard as long as they had it
their own way-as long as the burning
was all on one side-as long as they
could destroy the houses Of our people
without any fear for their own. Then,
every raid was recorded in the highest
strain of exultation. No pity was felt
for the families reduced to starvation,
the women and children burnt out Of
house and home, the hundreds of human
beings left to perish OF want. The COW
ardly ruflians engaged in these internal
scenes of havoc were applauded as the
most gallant of the military race. The
cries of whole people fell UNDECIDED, or
were met with shouts of derision. Now,
the tone is changed. 1t is nothing now
but lamentation and distress. Vengeance
has come at last, and it has come in
form so terrible that the Yankee heart is
appalled, at IT'S aspect.
We love to hear these cries of anguish.
This howl Of desolation and despair from
the quarter in which it is heard comes
upon our car like "music on the waters.
1t is sweet beyond all earthly sweetness,
gratifying beyond all earthly gratiiiea-
ton. Glad are We that retribution has
at last put forth its terrible arm and as
sumed its most terrible shape. We hope
it will not stop here We hope it will
be pushed to the farthest extremity to
which it is capable of going. We should
be glad to hear that the whole Valley of
the Susquehanna was one long, unbro
ken, irresistible sea Of fame, not to sub
side as long as house, or tree, or a
blade of grass, or stalk of corn, re-
manned to testify that it had ever
been inhabited by man. No sight
could be more agreeable to our eyes than
to behold every part Of Yankeedom
within reach of our armies converted
into mass OF ashes-to see every beast
that walked on four feet, and could not
be driven off for our use, slaughtered
and left to rot upon the ground. 1t Is
time to visit the execrable scoundrsls
with the wrath Of people who, offend
ing nobody, and remaining quietly at
home in their own houses, have been
gratuitously visited with all the horrors
of an Oriental war. Are we wrong ?
Read the following extract, from lady
to her daughter, written from the Sweet
Springs, under date of the 1st of july,
and published in the Enquirer yesterday.
One of the first ladies of the land went
to the scoundrel Hunter to ask him for
guard to protect her house. He told
her to 60 home, for he had determined
to burn the house that he intended to
burn every house within five miles of
any spot at which any of his men
had been bushwhacked. She said -
Surely, General, you cannot be in
earnest in saying that you intend
that women and children are to SUI.
fer such calamity in addition to all
besides that is the natural consequence
Of war" He replied in these remarka-
able words: II do intend that tie
soomen shall suffer; 1 organized this
raid for that espeeiat purpose: the
aeomen Of the South are tie tends that
haze kept up this scar; .they haze thrust
their fathers, sons and brothers into the
rebel army, and haze endured eceygthing
that could iprtte fLe ,o1, Ia M, a.. .;tI