The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14

now converted them into good and earnest
rebels"
The author was entertained by Gene raj
Johnston, and gives some interesting Incl
dents, showing the deep hatred which Mr..
Lincoln has driven into the minds and hearts
of the southern people:
whilst seated around ths camp fire in
the evening, one OF the officers remarked to
me, Il can assure you, Colonel, that niue out
of ton in the South would sooner become
subjects of Queen Vietoris than return to
the Union.' Nine out of tenP said General
Johnston. ninety mine out of hundred -
But the compliment was rather spoiled
when some one else said they would prefer
to serve under the Emperor of the French
or the Emperor of japan, to returning to
the dominion of Uncle Abe; and it was still
more damaged when another alluded in an
under tone to the internal regions as a more
agreeable alternative than Reunion with
the Yankees"
Col. Freemantle gives the following &C
count Of the character and discipline of the
southern soldiers;
"After having lived with the veterans of
Bragg aud Lee, was able to form a still
higher estimate of the Confederate soldiers
Their obedience aud forbearauce in success
their discipline under disaster, their patience
under suffering, under hardships, or when
wounded, and their boundless devotion to
their country, under all circumstances, are
beyond all praise"
The forbearance of the soldiers OF success
is due almost entirely to their Generals
Our soldiers were the same under Mcclellan.
If under Hooker. Pope, Burnside and Grant,
they have committed these excesses, which
Gen. Mcclellan in one of his orders des-
cribes as being so fatal to the discipline and
honor of a soldier, the disgrace should be
charged to the commanding officer, who en- :
courages or permits marauding and plunder.
In illustration of the spirit of aired which
this war has driven into and through the
mind of the South, the author mentions
having heard Gen. Maury' soliloquizing
over our flag in the following strsin:-"Well,
1 never should have believed that could
have lived to see the day in which to detest
that old flag" 1t was, indeed, a sad rehec-
ton, for Gen. Msury and the southern peo-
pie were all devoted to that old flag, when
a powerful party here in the North were, in
the language of the Tribune, denouncing it
as polluted rag" and "a Haunting lie."
At Mobile, Col. Freemantle saw m ore Of
the horror with which the negroes regard
the northern army;
81 overheard two negroes discussing af-
fairs in general; they were deploring the war,
and expressing their hatred of the Yankees
for bringing 'sufferment on us as we'll as our
masters Both of these had evidently a
great aversion to being run off, as they call
ed it. One of them wore his mas ter's sword =,
of which he was very proud, and he strutted
about in a most amusing and consequential
manner"
How many of these poor creatures have
been run off" into miseries that will be un-
told until that dread day when these
wretches will stand before tribunal from
which there will be no appeal!
We have, in this book. an interesting ac-
count OF the authors interview with Mr..
BENJAMIN, the Secretary of State of the Con-
fe deracy, which may, we suppose, be taken
as fair specimen of the spirit of sentiment
of the southern people in relation to the
charge of being rebels:
HE said the Confederates were more
amused than annoyed at the term rebel
which was 50 constantly applied to them;
but he only wished mildly to remark, that
in order to be .rebel,' person must rebel
against some one who has right to govern
him; aud be thought it would be very ifi-
cult to discover such right as existing in
the northern over the southern States. In
order to prepare a treaty of peace, he said,
it would only be necessary to write on a
blank sheet of paper the words self govern
naent Let the Yankees accord that, and
they might fill up the paper in any manner
they chose. We don't want any State that
doesn't waat us; but we only wish th at each
State should decide fairly upon It's own des-
tiny. All we are struggling for is to be let
alone"
What a contrast is this to the swagger,
bravado, and ill-mannered violence of one
of our republican politicians! The language
of Mr.. Benjamin is that of n man who is
both sincere and in earnest, from the high
est motives that stir the pride aud honor of
mankind. Listen to the coarse and impu-
dent language of Republican Senator, or
member of Congress, compared with the
calm and gentlemanly tone which Colonel
Freemantle declares to be the habitual tenn
per and style of the Southern people! The
very indecency of the manner of the Re-
publican politicians IN proof that they know
themselves to be in the wrong. In relation
to retaliation for the outrsges committed up
on the families and private property of the
Southern people. our author heard General
Lon gstreet say, "although it might be fair
aud just retaliation to apply the torch, Gn
Pennsylvania yet doing so would demoral-
ize the army, and ruin its now excellent
discipline. Private property is therefore to
rigidly protected"
And this good order was rigidly enforced
when the Confederates came into Penn
sylvania. Col. Freemautle says:
81 went into Chambsrsburg again, and
witnessed the singular good behavior of the
troops towards the citizens. To any one
who has seen, as have. the ravages of the
northern troops in southern towns. this for
bearance seems most com mendable and sur
prising."
He thinks the Pennsylvanians in the
nsighborhood Of Cham bersburg are queer
Daonla He aavn.