The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-30

VIC - PeopIC CAn zee 066 C1I1e3
WITH much ! se concern than they would feel il
those terrible blows fell upon any other people,
we have pad ence with Shcrman's men when we
Isnscs whese they are, for We know that that
tnouGht also influences their action. When ss,l-
ders earn at, -. 1T n, ordinarily, bad sign for the
a-tiphne of the amy of which they foam part !;
Dut IN the pre- saar case We know that the bur ming
OF cities and far Is not evidence that the dis.
cll1ne outsimIly that tte men, the real
s!Int OF the ople, feel the unconQuerabie ma
tional hate f| that pestilsnt people Who have
caused an thiS trouble. Why should they withhold
80 long as IL was perfectly safe to strike. Will they
tarn TINS rle faraer cut Of his house and homc bum
~ tnM ne ss, and make him starveling outcast
CertainlX Here are ten thousand men from illinois
and lnds rs many from New York and Maine.
and he iA~ turned every one of these out Of house
and h00e. For his fault-for the qualification OF
nls ma and ignorant poli,ica! passion-they have
been compelled to abandon all the comforts Of
home. as he must now. They have left aged pa
rents to the chances OF hfc, and young wives and
On auge ters exposed to its Temptations. They have
be- hungry for days, and in all Ways miserable for
La nth They can never hope fniIiet upoh hiIs
a Il .he OF the wIetchedness he has caused them !:
but what little they can do they will, aud they
bun q. Through Georgia the army was manage
abl ;. and respected the property and the people,
% Don as At touched the North Carolina line il was
ag"sn disciplined force; but in all the space be-
twe n. across the whole Of South Carolina, it
scou rye, tnt]ictsng the wild and passionate ven-
gean &c II the people who sent it,
In the same number of the Herald
which con tains the above, we have the
finding Of a military commission in the
case OF Captain r. G. Kennedy, an al
legged Confederate spy, charged with
setting fire to ''Barnum's Museum " and
one of the downtown" hotels, and
sentenced to be hung therefor. The
G ,urt say:
"The attempt to set fire to the city of New York
is one of the greatest atrocities Of the age There
Is nothing i'll the annals Of barbarism which
greater vlndctiveneSs. 1t was not mere attempt
to destroy the city, but to set fire to crowded hotels
and places Of public resort in order to secure the
greatest possible destruction of human hfe. The
evidence shows that Barnum's Museum and ten
hotels We're fired on the evening OF the 18th Of No
vember the fires in most Of them breaking ont in
quick succession, and indicating not only deliberate
and complex design and concert on the part Of the.
incendlaries, but cool calculation to create 30
many cOntagrations at the same time as to battle
| the efforts of the Fire Department to extingui-n
them. In all the buildings fired, not only non-
| combatant men, but women and children, were con-
gregated in great numbers and nothing but the
most diabolical spirit OF revenge could have I'M
PEELED the incendiaries to acts 50 revolving.
"The lives, the property, the domestic security,
of pon-combatant citizens must be protected against
alvinvason not in strict accordance with the law,
and usages Of civilized States in the conduct Of
Crimes which outrage and shock the moral sense by
their atrocity must not only be punished, and the
perpetrators he deprived CT the power of repeating
| them, but the sternest condemnation Of the law
must be presented to others, to deter them from
| the commission Of similar enormtics.'
Compare the finding of the Court with
the above extract from the HeraM.-
Comment is unnecessary. 1.-THE burn
ing of Southern citiesV is a matter oi
congratulation; of Northern cities, "the
| greatest atrocities of the age" and de-
serving the gallows. Would the Court
have accepted in Kennedy's. defence the
HerolGs plea for. Sherman's soldiers: ar
"unconquerable national hate for ths
pestilent people who have caused all thi'
trouble"