New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-18

itently for the crack Of an assassins pistol while
!: he was reading his first Inaugural. That he
would DO inaugura.ed without violence was 1--WE
| think generally disbeleved throughout the
lSlaye States.
War followed; and systematic efforts to fire
lthe Southern heart to madness by tales Of Yam.
lhcc atrocity and devastation were rcsorted to.
The killing of Col. Ellsworth, the first Rebel
'Goneral Order after our soldiers had crossed the
Potomac, and other incidents of that brief, dis.
'a,trous campaign, proved not merely the exist
lence but the success Of these efforts. The
'indignities inflicted on the bodies of our
dead soldiers after Bull Run were melted
Ay these innammatory appeals. The igno-
rant Southern rank and file, assured
that We had invaded their country to
devastalc and subiugatc, to plumber, rayish and
kill, verify thought they did God service in
mutilating our corpscs. And thus it has been
throughout, as the fendsh spirit evinced by
many Southern women has borne witness. They
would not have so misconducted themselves at
the sight of foreign enemies; but they had been
told. and believed, that " the Yankees" were
the scum OF mankind, and were among them Oh
a most diabolical Grand. Hence they have often
insulted and berated our soldiers as no sayages
ou earth would have done.
The treatment of orr prisoners of war, has
'quite too generally seemed impcled by a
shirt which seemed intent on melting n
mutual and general massacre of captiyes. We
make no account in this of the fact that they
were poorly fed at best and often wrctchedly
lodged. Prisoners fare is apt to be rough, and
the Confederates were often on short allowance
themselves. But their frequent butcheries Of our
Colored soldiers; their persistent refusal
Ito exchange any OF these; their
utterly wanton refusal to let our poor boys at
Andcrsonvillc supply themselves with fuel and
shelter from the circumiacent pine forest, and
their brutality toward the sick aud wounded,
ARE not TO be excused. They indicate settled
purposa to aggrayate the misery and the NOR
tally inevitably attendant on War, aud to dis
able our men for service after they should be
exchanged. They meant to make War so hor-
riblc and appalling that our men should refuse
10 enlist or shrink from the encounter.
Soon after Mr.. Lincoln's reelection the follow
ing appeared first in The Selma Dispatch (Alo..
and was copied unTebukcd into other Rebel or
gans:
"Oyr MILLION DOIIAHs WAIVED TO HAVE PEACE
Dy me lsr OF MALCu-lf the citizens Of the southern
Conedorncy vii! furnish with the ca.h, or good pc
'cuities for tic Of one million doaf' VIII cause
1.-The lives Of Abraham Lincoln. William ~. Seward and
ndrcw Johnson TO be taken by the lst 81 March next.
This will give peace aud satisfy the world that cruel
Ityranis cannot live ia land Of liberty IL this Is not
accomplished nothing will be claimed beyond the sum
of fifty thousand dollars IN advance which Is supposed
TO be necessary to reach and slaughter the three vi
.lains.
Il viii giTe, mysclf one thousand dollars toward
Every one wishing to contribute viii sddrcs. boz
* Cakawbn Ala.
December J, lsCi y
Such facts, and the corresponding editorials
.of the Rebel journals, countenance the popular
presumption that the late murdcrous outrages
lin Washington were incidents Of a comprehcn.
sivc plot. vhereto the Rebel leaders were priyy.
IThe burglarious raid on 81. Adams, the at
tempts simultaneously 10 fire our great hotels,
and other acts wholly out of the pale Of civilized
warfare, tend 10 strengthen this conviction.
We glance at these facts without the least
desire to aggravate the Gory indignation now
an but universal. We would gladly moderate,
and would do nothing TO infamc it, We 90
not mean now. any more than we have meant
hitherto, to lose sigh, OF the fact that the
Rebels are our coun,Iymcn, and that they are
TO be such in the future as they have been
in the past. We have sought from the
outset 10 have the War 30 prosecu-
ted that We may come together at it
close not merely in amity, but with mu-
tual respect which was wanting in the past
But IL is very clear that the excitement now
peryading the loyal State, has only been prccip-
itated so TO speak by the murder Of the Prc4i
dent and il, incidents; that many fact oonbino
10 prove this tie result Of influences wde
spread as Slavery. ard the fruit. Of q spiri,I
which the Rebel chiefs and Press have laborcGI
20 ncitc. The deeds OF last Friday night
were the work, lct us still hope, OF few in
significant wrctchos: but the frenzy which,
impcllcd them pCryddcs many breasts, and j.
liable a. any moment TO blaze ont into crime
the most execrable. Hence the Indignation.
now 80 general has quite other aliment thmI
the special atrocities which aroused ii, and
destined TO have results which those atrocities,
Standing alone, would hardly produce or justify.
THE PRESIDENTS GEAVE.
Though We have not lcnTd as We white W,
presume that Mr. Lincoln family have decided