Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-04-16
War OF Ferocious Retaliation Recon-
mended.

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War OF Ferocious Retaliation Recom-
mended.
Perhaps the people-perhaps even the Govern
ment of the Confederate States-are now at
length awakened to the true nature of the strug-
gle III progress. We have been in the habit of
regarding it n war between nations our enc
mics have all along looked upon it as military
execution upon mutinous crew. The means by
which their soldiers are desired - to write their
names in ineffaceable letters the hearts of
their countrymen, are by rushing at night upon
populous city, burning it down with turpentine
and oakum in ~ soaked balls turning loose
some thousands of rufian prisoners, brutalized
to the deepest degree by acquaintance with every
horror of war, who have been confined an
island for year, far from all means of indulging
their strong sensual Notwithstanding this pan
demonium to work their will on the unarmed
citizens, on the women, gentle and simple, of
Richmond, and on all their property-in a word,
to sack with the usual Accomplishments attend
ing that operation-to kill Jeff. Davis and his
mutinous crew and slip away they came to
burn not only houses and bridges, but every
thing else which might be of use to the rebels
barns, boats, stores, provisions and to slaughter
all horses and cattle which they could not carry
away with them.
The results, indeed. of this tremendous inten-
ton of ravage and butchery were contemplate.
The picked command, selected from brgades
and regiments " for the thieving and numbering
expedition, was not quite up to the mark g The
braves who were to have swept through Rich
mond " were very easily swept away from before
Richmond and their balls of oakum and tur-
pentinc, instead of Kissing and flaming in our
dwellings and amidst terrified women and chill
dren, expected, had to be thrown into
the Pamunkey for the present Nevertheless,
the minute programme of that piece of business
cannot fail to be instructive. After our Gov
ernment has existed for three years, and has all
that time maintained large armies to meet and
battle their far greater armies in fair fight on the
field, they think it is still an allowable nay a
virtuous and glorious proceeding to steal upon
our Chief Magistrate and his Cabinet in their
beds, and, after burning their houses, to hang
them up on the next tree, just as the French in
Algiers would do to Kabyle chief and his en-
campment, in the desert or the English in India
to Nena Sahb Ghoorka marauder.
NOw-it is we'll to look position straight
in the face-we barbarians in the eyes of
our enemies. Our way of life is, according to
the dictum of these philosophers, 81 the scum
of all barbarism," Against us everything is
fair. We also, though we have newspapers and
orators, and certain command of the English
language, are yet so hemmed in for the present
by blockadng fleets and armies that our protest,
if we attempt any, dies away in silence too. 1t
is the simple fact, let us take it will, that
those enemies against whom we fondly believe
we waging an honorable war, as nation
against nation, are carrying on against US the
very same sort of warfare that English armies
think good enough for the revolted Sepoys and
mntinous hill tribes. If they can surprise, by
any sort of artifce, our kraal of Richmond, and
deliver it over to the mercy of their troops, and
hold in it one good carnival of lust and rapine
they will write their names in imperishable let
tiers on the hearts of their countrymen. This
situation of affairs was always well known to
u.s. but it was doubted or denied by many Con-
federates of feeble brain. Do they believe it
now, understand it now, that we have it under
the hand of Federal officers charged with the
task of breaking up this q hateful " den of
Richmond, burning and robbing our houSe<
stripping and violating the vrtuous and often
refined Christian woman of this place, shootny
stabbing, hanging the highest civil officers of
the law, and massacreing indiscriminatcv the
population?
This is wholesome kind of reflection for our
own countrymea. We believe il will sting them
We think it highly probable that they will per-
emptorily demand of their Government some
practical unmistakable assertion of our tulI l,.-
termination to be treated honorable enemies :
and civilized people. And what --SnInc may
ask-what then would you have our Government
to do turn the war into a war of cNcrmin:-
ton! Certainly, certainly: it is already war
OF determination, of indiscrinlinatc slaughter
and plumber on the part of our enemies. Their
sparing the lives of prisoners and orrr>>inn en-
changes form but a temporary suspension al tc !
rule, necesstated by our holding prisoners also
but the true animus, the authentic Yankee theory .
of the war, is manifest in the WIZ is manifest
in the actual proceedings Of onr enemy where
ever he has the power. anil especially. and most
signaly in this code Of instruction. for sack and
massacre in Richmond.
Our Government owes il n itS own army and
to its own people. if it cannot ut the moment re-
taliate such atrocities in kind, ut least to bring
to condign punishment the rpbherS who. in the
guise of soldiers and under prctcnec of war.
have been caught lurking almut Richmond with
their cakum balls and turrentinc. and their writ
ten programme for numbering the Chief Magis-
trate and setting FIRE to all the houses until the
city is burnt in hundred places ut once. and
then inviting eight THOUSAND hlonl-thirsty. lust
full ruffians to gut the blazing mansions. rape
the mistresses, and knock the masters in the
head in the dreadful confusion. l'ut il we hang
these wretches then the enemy will select an
equal number for the .,allows? Not while we
hold sixteen thousand hostages. l'ut If we
shrink from that there il another alternative.
and the only one left us-han@ing anil massacre
all on side. We can choose between the
two other choice there is none.-Richiannd E{-
aminer.
Az ANEcDorE.-A strong Corpcrhcal in Con
necticut was recently denouncing, in mmcasur-
able terms, the United States Government and
the war, when the company was joined l'y a
neighbor, strong Union man, and after listen
ing for some time, interrupted him with the re-
mark:
You came honestly by your principles: you
are tory, naturally"
What do you mean says the Coprerhead. !
You know, says Union, q that during the |
war with Great Britain, the British entered the |
haroor and burned the town of New London"
Why, somebody piloted them in, and when
his dirty work was done, he came home with the /
British gold, and his neighbors hearing of his /
presence, provided themselves with ropes. and
made him an evening call, when he made his
escape by the back door, and fed to Bcrmoda
island, and died there
WE'LL says Copperhead, "What has all
that to do with it p
WE'LL" said Union, "that pilot was Your