Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-08-18
From the Constitutional Union.
Unblushing In1pudence.


Dnblushing In1pudence.
THE AUDACITY OF HYPOCRISY & DISHONESTY.
The Federal goyernm ent has several times
sent raiding parties on different routes to-
wards Richmond, with orders to destroy
mills, railroads, wheat, corn, IN short, food
of every kind, and the reports of such ex
petitions have been of uniform teDor-'vast
destruction Of mills, houses, villages, rail-
roads, wheat, corp. and all that goes to sns-
tain life in man or beast destroyed And
almost directly on the heels Of these rsi6s
there goes through the North howl so loud
and dolorous, SO fierce an6 terrible, that the
whole country is started and appalled, It
ann ounces that the Federal prisoners at the
Libby prison, at Richmond, are being star
ed to death, and thereupon q Congressional
Committee is appointed to investigate the
matter. Tt is done. A volume of the ev-
ldence in the case, to which photographs
OF the the emanciaaed prisoners is pu blishad /:
The North sees the fact, and straitway calls
for vengeance. This conscientious com mittee
forgot, in the first place to say, that A5ralan's
raids. destruction of mills and everything
eatable, came very near starving the Confed-
crates out of Richmond and that consequent
ly. the Prisoners suffered greatly for want OF
food. And secondly, that huodreds of just
such skeleton cases, as appended 20 their
report, can be photographed from the hos
pitfalls around Washington; men who contrac-
ted disease from exposure ia the service
from which they never recover. That COM
mittee OF honest men, perhaps, forgot these
points. ~. a.--
Again, It was the boast of some of Gen.
Shermans officers, on their way up the Mis-
sissippi river, after the fall of Wick sbuFg,
that they were with the Yazzoo expedition
said publicly on board the steamboat, that
for thirty miles in length and twelve in
breath, 70 building OF any kind but had
been destroyed, and every thing that would
sustain life, and they grew exceedingly mer-
~ over the CONSERVATION of the women and
children, when they woke up in the night
and found their houses in flames. IL aOas
such yf1,a to see them running out to the ,coods
an their nig1t-c30tses, frightened to DEATH
= And, IN Sherman's recent march from
Chattanooga to the ttahoochie, devasta-
tior has marked every step of the way. He
destroys as he goes. In fact, his theory is
to subsist the army off the enemy, and what
he cannot use to destroy. ~
These facts being promised, the hypo-
critical sfectation Of sympathy for Tennes-
scans in the region of Chattanooga, living in
the wake Of Sherman's army, by the cores
pondent of the Louisville journal, whose
letter is copied into the Sunday Morning
Chronicle, doubtless. with many tears ana
HEARTFELT sympathy for the poor sufferers,
viii be apparent. All such hypocrites un-
derstand the the Importance of appearing
humane and sympathetic before the gusto
with which black hearted and villianous
editors insert them in their papers.
THE SUFFERING TENNEssEANs "A more
sorrowful spectacle one could not imagine
than that presented by the disappointed poor
who have applied to our commissary here
at Oh attsp ooga since the order of General
Sherma an forbade the issue of rations to the
destitute citizens within our lines. -
Aged women are seen at Captain Cssson's /
begging for bread, but military necessity is
an inexorsble law, and hearts that pity are
iupotent to respond with the aid solicited.
At his Office every day women, marriage |
able girls, children, cripples, and needy, Of |
every age and of both sexes, may be seen /
here in rags and wretchedness, barefooted,
in tears.
The mother that weeps at the door IS not
suffering from hunger. Il is not bread that
will dry her tears 1t is food for the little
ones at home that alone will make err hap
py. Think of it. To walk fifteen, twenty,
thirty or even forty miles for a few pounds
of provender. to keep together body and
soul! How can the mother return to her
our breasts had windows, | am sure that
through these we could read despair, to
depict which words would fail. The army
must have bread. The unity of the States
and the supremacy of the laws may rest
upon this campaign.
The stake is too mighty to admit of any
renlissness-to allow even the voice of suf-
fering to hold US back. If we feed the .
needy we may starve the soldiers. The
soldiers fights for all. If he suffers b e may
fail, and with that failure we are all poor
indeed, and a nation are sufferers II we
suffer for period aud cheer him, we en-
chance his chances for victory. His success
is national gain. and national prosperity is
individual. Hot tears may scald the cheeks
OF mothers, and hunger pinch thousands of
needy ones, and vet the success Of the Union
cause is worth all that sacrifice, even months
Of painful hunger.
To give the reasons for the sufferings and
starvation of women and children, aud the
facts of the case, would spoil The entire eff
feet and roma nce Of these letters. The
whole thins is CLOSED over, and covered up
by suck sentences as these. The stake is
TOO mighty to admit Of any remisness-to at
lot1 eUen the voice Of suffering lCOnsen and chill
drer to hold as back!' aged women are
seen at Captain CAsson's begging for bread,
but military necessity is an iuexorabIe law, :
and hearts that pity! are impotent TO re-
sPond with the aid sol cited J. q
Yes, and il Gsnl. Sherman had conduc- ]
ted this war according to the rules OF civil
lied warfare, aud not against women and c
children NJ such manner as but few savage !!
natiof bvve done within several centuries )
past.rtere would have Keen no 'ased wo- .
men or mothers, begging !oUd for their star
wing cbildreDs In Justification, with that
Btolid indifference to human woe which is !
to, be one OF the PREDOMINANT J
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