The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-02

By sos&>- enl1smsats--and With the ID
vantage Of navy and an immense power
Of iron clads, which has thrown int
their hands oil the navigable water o
the South-with all these, the Yam
k, rs have, besides, enlisted the slaves
of the South to fight against then
masters; and they .endeavor to fiji
tho hearts Of these conhding poor
creatures with vindictive rage and thirst
for revenge against their people, theil
| masters. who have ever. treated them
| with kindness and humanity. Now,
they DO this by the most extravaganza
falsehoods concerning the conduct OF our
men, under Forrest, at Fort Pillow. Thus
exciting those ill.fated blacks (whom
thew have robbed of homes such as they
never can give them, with imaginary
wrongs and outragss, and making them
drunk with liquor, they hound them ON
TO the attack of the Southern soldiers
to attack the men commanded by Robert
+. Lee. the soldier without reproach,
and the Christian gentleman without
stain and without dishonor. In the
whole history of this war not one act Of
unnecessary hsrshness even can be.
charged to this peerless commander,
His humanity is overilowing, and his
desire to spare the etfusion of blood has
lost him many advantages which he
permitted, for that sentiment, unavailed
to pass by. He governs an army of
heroes-a Drawer or more chivalrous body
of men were never ranged in line Of
battle Against such chieftain and
such high-spirited veterans these unprin-
cipled and heartless Yankees send forward
their black regiments with the savage
cry of Remember Fort Pillow No quar-
ter" What a debased race it must be
that can bring itself to this degraded
and barbarous device for adding horrors
to the war waged against the South-so
much its inferior in numbers and re
sources of war!
The trick Of inflaming the negro mind
by the false representations Of the scenes
at Fort Pillow-where our army did
nothing out of the course Of honorable
warfare, and nothing, indeed, which it
was not obliged to do-shows the true
purpose of the Yankee in introducing
The negro into the war. It was to in
;rease the horrors Of the strife, and
hereby spread dismay, if possible,
throughout the South In order to sue
,eed in this object it was necessary that
1is mind. should be infamed and his
most vindictive feelings aroused against
his own people. Every art and appli-
sncc with this view have been employed.
The story of Fort Pillow is buta sample
IF the means used to irritate and stimu-
ate him. With such, the cold blooded
md tiendish Yankee hoped to incite to
slaughter, and illumine
he Southern skies with incendiarv fires
hat were to leave 4 deeolate land. where
here would be neither shelter nor food
or any one. 1t is not the will of Pro |
7idence that such wicked and inhuman
purposes should be accomplished. The |
'rave South has stood firm against the |
armies and hellish agents Of |
he enemy, and, with the favor Of Heaven. |
,as defeated them all Thus it must be. |
'uch a war must end in the destruction |
f those who wage it against us.
The high honor and chivalrv, the dig |
ity and humanity Of the public char
cter Of the South should not be comnro.
lised by State policy or military authori
=. But when the enemy, of multifarious !
aces and huos, by his british outrages
nd fcndish war cries, stirs up the blood
nd the widest passions of the Southern
'ldier in the field Of battle, it would be
either demanded by justice or humanity
lat he should be checked in admins
ring upon tho foe the most terrible ret
button.