Washington telegraph., 1864-08-17

Yet, old Aba von rfr.si remember
That bt0oi has nsikri the ysy
Which vour GJfhs Lay- tI.r-ut w travel
Down South in saarrh ni pffg
CHoRUS-Ahralam, oil Ab.tu. &c
Camd. n. Ark May IJth 1869
a LAY SERMoN-The following ac-
count Of the hralthful influence of Yam
kee raids has been fally verified In those
portions of Arkansas 10 which rhe Fed
erals have paid attention. Uniouissn,
thank God don't pay even Just look
at poor Sebasrian-trying 70 remain
neufral-and driven from his home, hoot-
"a AZ bv bands of insoleni negroes lie
j. a refugee from his own State. aud
from amongst the f-darals whose Prot C.
ton he sought, aud whose good will he
would have cruciiiated. Pity j. the
most insulting OF all friendly feelings to-
ward. a fellow being. We svmpathisa
ana condole with friends in distress
WI compassionate the innocent III mis-
f5rruuc-we pity those whom we once es-
.eemcd, ana find morally weak ava do-
graded. Sebastian j, al object VI pity.
But ID orr sermon. II i taken from
| the Richmond Examiner of July lst. We
commend il to the attention of AT who
murmnr that the Confederate Govern
rncnt should demand of them their sub
stance for the protection nj thr country.
The practical lessons and patriotic re-
Elections will readily suggest themselves:
\ Cavalry raids, destructive H. thev
are. never conqueI~1 country. Rather.
indeed they help to make it unconnuer-
ahlr and that in several ways. In the
frs; place they greatly tend 70 destroy
that sneaking " Uuiouisui," not vet quite
extinct in some regions ~ our country.
which ~ willing tJ take thr oath Ito save
Dr. property" Creatures VI this crawl
u iuG snrr meet no iay"r5 from the Yankee
4 raider; hin business In IN rob and deya,-
I iatc. IN carry away what IL portable and
destroy what h. cannot carry, Ill order
70 -tarve out tie Rebellion;1 aad le
Has no notion VI being cheated by these
I " Union" poor devils with their flee and
easy nathS.
When they protest thai they have AL
ways been "U Uninn men," that they will
take the oath and all that, raiders reply
Indignantly las described BY a letter ilom
/ Roaroke county,, that they are ..---
liars ana thereupon proceed W rob
their premises. II would ~ good idea,
\ truly, 1T wealthy farmer uf Western
Virginia, with his barns and meat houses
full gold in his desk and silver in hi-
pantry, could turn away a regiment of
furnishing horses and their hungry and
greedy riders by merely pruc.4iming
loyalty" ana rendering al oath. Cal
' Federal soldiers eat ana drink oatbs y
Are oaths good il a horse's rack and
manger!
< The Yankee gallant who has vowed tr
carry IN Massachusetts some trophy fal.
stolen articles they caii .;rophieS,-l of
his Southern campaign. can As bring
home 10 The mIsccgunaIriX b4 loves "
planters oath. when herNprcts bi- drugh-
ter's jewels nrhi- Wife's lU.ksaul >yoous !
Y Ii j., therefore, with sincere pleasure. ai-
most with sense NJ obligation to lhr
very raiders, that one hears of their CON
renptuous in5ttention 10 professions of
base 'loyalty;" and the irrpartiaIity with
which they rob all round. Thus, every
district WI country which has been har-
rird by a Yankee raid w two becomes u
most staunch Confederate country there
after.
There il another way, too, in which
raids bring with them q certain c0mpen-
sation, az ieastin Western Virginia 1hev
discover and bring " light mex pectyd
granaries and stores WI provisions hiddpn
IN caves, literally in caves uf the earth,
with which that limestone country ahuuu1a
\ i he prudent farmers had hid awav lhes,.
stores W save then, not from Yankee
narauders, hut from their own govern
mont and their n fellow -citizeus. These.
are thc suffering farmers who never had
anything wlItn Confederate yuarterrnas-
tars, iuPressius officers or purchasers on
government account, came rnand: they
k had nothing 40 sell Tor Confederate mo
H iney; I'D far from that they were always iu
distress, ana .4ilaJs. starving, aud anxious
delegations ase.. e. COME down - Rich
mond, on their pat, that -four should n,
sent up the Valley to sustain life. snd -
! pecialiy that III the government should