The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-02-10

B0l0 WO0ccYo0e anu OubuSi0e havc ~ ssaA ~
srdess attached the penalty Of death 70 the
wearing OF Federal uniforms by Confederate
soldievs, and Il Vas declared that oil Of such
soldiess captured with such uniforms upon
them should be subject 10 capital punish
ment.
In the recent raid by Averill his advanced
guard W. clothed In Confederate uniforms
They appeared lrst In the Villages and ALONG
the roads a they marched, and our people
were deceived. imagining thst our own force
were approaching. They we're soon, now
ever. updeccived, and surprised by the main
force, who proceeded to appropriate 10
themselves ell that they could lay their nands
upou. or that was at all desirable.
This oct OF duplicity on the part Of tue
Yankees b entirely in accordance With the r
sthics. They are the only people OF modern
times who boldly avow and practice the rule
that the end justifies the means. It 10 right
to destroy all the provisions Of the country
whether owned BY private citizens or the Gov
eminent. (See Butler's boast OF destroying
the many thousands Of pounds OF bacon, and
the thousands oil barrels Of corn In the recent
Yankee rad TO Braudon.) It IL right to carry
OF ali the labor of the country. 1t is right
to enlist and arm the slaves OF the South
againstehsls masters. 1t is right to burn up
the agricultural implements Of the country,
- that there shall be no more planting. no
more harvesting, and the people shall die oil
FAMINE. II is right to rob the private
dwellings in mid winter Of all the clothing
and all the bed covering Of the people in.
habiting them. 1t IL right to deprive the
land of all means of subsistence so that the
army shall be dispersed and the population
ehaM he scattered and in great part perish,
and be succeeded by the hungry race
of plupdering invaders, which the Yankee
Government has set upon the South to CON-
plete the work of desolation and destruction
which It premeditated at the beginning of the
war, and which 1t has by degrees developed
until it IL now no longer disguised or yelled
from the eyes ofthe world. And allthese hor-
rors--all this destruction-all these inhuman
ae.s-are considered expedients Of military
necessity" in the war Of subjngation Of the
South-all measures proper and timely in
the crusade to break down the spirit OF the
Southern people and reduce them TO siavish
q submission TO the North. There is no horror
/. n all the list Of hOrrOrs-nO crime in the
catalogue Of national atrocities which these
be.otted Northern people and their Govern
,ment will not consider justiflable in the pro-
secutlon Of their purpose Of c-nquering the
South and anhihilating Its national existence
In this catalogue OF crimes against man
Kind, Avcrill's little device Of deceiving the
localities he visited by clothing his advance
10 Confederate uniforms is small offence.
IT is only noticeable for It's Inconsistency with
i,osecraas aud Burnside's brutal orders. Our
brave soldiers only wear Yankee uniforms as
u matter Of necessity. They capture them
fairly In the field, and they put them on rs
matter Of right, as we'll as matter Of ne
cessity, to protect themselves against the
storms and frosts of the season. But the
Yankees have no such valid reasons. They
have the markets of the world open to them,
and they have manufactures abundant at
home They capture little-or no clothing
from US, and they have plenty of their own.
They adopt our uniform for no other reason
than to deceive our people; to make their
plundering expeditionSthe more successful,
and the surprise of their arrival to capture
desired booty the more complete. If our
men deserve death under the circumstances,
what punishment are theirs, disguised for
these motives, entitled to?
But what care they? They have neither
sense Of justice nor of Shame! Nothing but
bravery and constancy in the South, With the
help OF Heaven, can right our wrongs or
punish the national dnplicitY and atrocity of
our besotted enemy. A contemplation of
these wrongs should but nerve the arms OF
our people, land give weight and force to
every blow they strike.