The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-11-02
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
tFRoM ouR OWN CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK October 27.-I clip from the ". 7. Trib-
ne OF 2lst inst this noble letter from Southern lady
and whilst doing 80, must express respect the
course of that paper in publishing It, The Tribune has
been most earnest In its raid against houesy
eves to be the sin of slavery and advocated the war
with all its might but when victory achieved, It
became the advocate for conciation whilst the Herald
which profcssed to be the greatest friend of the South
up to the breaking out Of the war; has shown the most
bitter hatred and vindctive feeling since It was
compelled by the fear OF mob violence to espouse the
war partys will venture say that no such let
ter rs the suboined would have found its way the
public ear through the columns of the ~ Y. Herald:
SOUTHERN WOMAN TO THE NORTH.
To the Editor ofthe ~. Y. Tribune.
SIR In various Northern and Southern newspapers
have read with feelings of Unsurpassed indignation
most pathetic accounts of the terrible suerngs and
horrd brutaltes pracced upon the Union at
Andersonyille Ga and wondered II that were the only
fold" which would shock outraged humanity Have
any Of the keepers of Fort Delaware Camp Chase John.
sons Island and other bastes of the North been yet
tried for orleltes practced upon Southern soldiers
Thousands of haggard, emaciated wrecks Of humant.
W made 30 by starvation and cold endured under their
treatment could testify against them to say nothing of
that that cloud Of witnessed whose wenred spirits are
now enjoying eternal rest and whose bodies lie sleeping
IN strange land but whose voices speak even from
Looking OF our returned prisoners with their lonp
bony fingers, hollow checks, and gaunt, attenuated
FORMS and Listening to the mournfui stories of their
coughs which with tho bright hectic flush and prefer
naturally brilliant eye tell talo sadder than their
dress for their wrongs could no longer keen siient a.
peoiay in those Northern prisons all that extreme
harshness was entirely unnecessary.
That the prisoners Of Andersonvio suffered, is rea
sonaoe to suppose and expect they look back with
not know that prisons at best have ever been regarded
as very charming places Of But whose fault was
It that they suffered at all The Confederate author
o offer t4 and in tho rejection Of those
providing for such large surplus population? Did not
our ports, prescribe medicines wines and comforts of
all kinds as contraband9 Did not 'the best Govern
ment the world ever saw send its armies worse than
any swarm OF Egyptian ocusts, through land with
and sword destroying everything the eye could rest
upon? And even this sunny South had been the per-
feet Dorado they to imagine from their eager
ness to come In and possess 1t, and furnished three
crops year. the fearful ravagos of General Sherman
and Gen. Hunter, which wore on such an extensive
scale to excte their admiration pide Gen
shermans report Of bis Georgia campaign would have
they demanded the samo tale OF bricks yet withheld
the straw. More people In this Southern land beside
the prisoners at Andersonville suffered for the want
the luxures and the comforts of this fe It was
matter OF necessity Then let the blame rest whore
belongs.on the Government which had the power to
rescue Its soldiers from sharing theee OWLS yet failed
| use It,
Tho idea Of duplicating Mr.. Davis who before the
cupied the position of noble Christian gentleman with
completely In anything that savorod Of 6arbarity or o.
in starving prisoners, is TOO aSsurd That he was tS
PRESIDENT of an unsuccessful Republic, and cutters
who voted for SmNis simply the fate Of war, and nc
why he should be assaled with foulest aspor
stls by every little editor correspondent, desroui
OF currying favor with the "powerB that be.'
True to Yankee nature. nothing be done without
sensaton-aming exaggerated articles must appear
the pubic is indebted chieay to tho Imagination Of t6
arts-everything Is resorted to, to nlame tho mind
should be adopted they really wish to establish