Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-07-18

every neighborhood In the Surrounding country has
been sited BY bin and bis band Of Thieves. and wber.
ever they have gene, ncgroer, horses and cattle hare
been stoler, houses bureed, trunks, buruaul smoke
hSuses, corn cribs, and chicken houses, have bsen
broken open and robbed ladies' and ipfrm old man
abused and nsulted In the grossest manner Iye,iJy
believe that Benjamin +. Butler With oil she black ca.
logue of crimes charged 70 his account IL better
q. hear, and ia practice than DOL Spears On raid IN
Matthew'S county, be had On inoifensive man hung
the evid nee Of negrceu that he had concealed bush-
WI ackers or Confederate scouts on he prems's In
Nsnsemond, houses Of women and childr- have BET
burned by him, and mothers denied the privilege OF
saving siBels garment Of their children, or sipgo
pie &c of bacon from the fimes Richard Hozler, a
quiet and farmer Of Nansemond was srrett'
ed last ear with soms articles, his way to Black
water and was carried to Fort Norfolk, ard 10 nov
prisoner there, with proapec. OF delseTanoe ssven
other CT ze1s OF that county Imprisoned for cor
recting, or th;ea eriny correct free negro, tor
stealing and impudence. Women have been arrested
at Suffolk aud at Norfolk again and again, for threit-
eniug their colorsd for neglect of duty. TIE
arrest and imprsonu ent OF the wives of Confederate
officers and soldiers and the order to hang them In re-
taliaiion for The and hanging of negro must
sl be f,esh in the minds of all as among the atrooi-
ties of Gen. Wilde while TO these mus. DO aided nu.
merous instances Of Voenc. upon the persons OF most
respectable females, many OF which have never been
alluded to in the p,pers because OF the high social po-
son of the parties, and the modification which pub
l licity would give them.
To h 80 might be added the orders OF the Beast. con
fling in unhealthy forts eminent ministers OF the Cos
pei and than for trivial charges sending the most re-
spectacle young ladies' to wash ald cook for tdem-
Wines the cases of DR.. Armstrong Acd Rev Mr. Balm
aud the sentence of Mss Corn sh and Mss Moore to wait
| on them at Fort HA.t1aL
Many of these incidents have been alluded to without
exciting the interest aud indignation they should, an'
this sect on OF the couny, given up to the ravages
the merclsss foe, in the uuvise evacuation Of Norfolk
has endured and suffered on without murmur aud com
plant Aud now, when other sections have experienced
like Indigntes, and the public mind Is aroused it ha
bee deemed not nopportune moment 10 eet up, cid
by side, the sustings Of the Seabosrd region oil Vir
GINA and North Carolina with the su6srngs OF the peo
pie OF tue interior. d lot tho.e who have rece MI
suffered rememo Der ths-many Of the refugees In hsi
mids. have endured all thsse taings before them.
have ony room to adi-this, your postio in re
ference to to 10 pursued toward raiders re
ceiVes in the mind Of Jour correspondent hsay res
ponce. These men, who violae ths rules of cvilize
warfare should not be treated prisoners of war whe
they fall into the hands of s5ldier' UnlesI sto
put to raidug in this way, this will become the set
tied pslcy Of our eeemies. Concentration has bee
trel and will prove a failure. Grant will notcap.ui
Richmond, aud Sherman will not tax, lints, sud th
end of this campaign will change the whole pofcJ
the NORTH and make the Northern army to be compose
OF large rsdiug parties. Lat put stop to this mod
Of warfare q. once by refusing tax, any man sp'i
soner who is caught with party burning aud robsD
houses and insulting women. This alone will put q
| end to raid.ng. w.