Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-03-08

The Spirit of the Enemy.
IS is awarsse tSp: TE number.
leasasnd uunnmbersa atlocitio 6f siiIsRula on /
his:march ttIIrouga or gtate, perpetratid By him
and his subalierns NTH remorseless cruelty and
barbarity, we're no ptips, to: convince us that
,the OBJECT Of onr enemy is 10 eytirpatp The iI-
of the Confederate States and to sett,e
up tho country With ITah hkees and peg-oe.. Tia
;whbls course of the Wars speciaIiy sin.e the;
Emancipation Proclamation Of Lincoln, bears
inaontestabls estiirons to this design, vhichiss
guftheratreags ened BY tho revelations 6f;;:thc5
Northern press aud the utteraices Of every y'msn
connected vi k.the party now paramount that;
country; who has addressed Tho public since that
seYone Tho Yankees are peculiarly tensitiye to
stho; Of the rorld, aud it is to influence
that opinion, and TO justify ths fDrogopesconcus
sion of thbirs aoFosnmont, tkat they ipyent- all
those attrqeious lies specting the treatment Of
their prisoners nnd the wabton rnassdtre of their
negro spiders. And 70 the same cad aye the
Yankee popaiace continually stimulated by thefr
Stssss Bith tafcs Of confsdsrate atroci;y, which,
lin ninstysnine cases out Of ono hundred, ara pure
inventions, and in tho ehundredth, are only truc in
far as Il ono of retalistion for brutali
tios perpetratod by the 1Yankses. .s
The design is to get up aoase which may justi-
fyany excess Of cruelty they may think ITO
psrpotrnte in The eyes the #orld in osder that,
under its shelter they maJ carry outthsir prsdcz
termined schemes of murder and devastation. II
|ahsy can ssgs to believe that IN
stance of sliberate atrocity is,nly case Of Just
retTibutioa sss. - parity and ambition receiye
ample satisfaction; end tho Yankee nation be-
,cones tho Stern mud irresistible Nemesis Of TIE
Continent tteading the path Of vengeance with
swift and certain steps, and with fenofseless jus
ttice exacting atoaemsnt from the wrong sdoer,
even in the honr Of his triumph. If the Yankee
people ean placs them aelycsin thai imposing at-
tiads before tho world it viii llsratify their ssni
tyne, doubt; bat their hatred of us, and their
isgection: forpur possessions, are passions even
stronger within them than htir vanity They
Fare prepared to exterminate the population Of
these States, regardless Of the opinion Of man
kind. :; 80
Our press has been in tho habit of aasailing
the Yankees with all manner of abusive epithets.
EIt does no particle of good whnteser.l II rather
tickles pride tobe told of their atrocities,
sihcesthe Tery fact that they can commit them
With impunity, Is q proof Of their power. Lot
cease, at olcs and forever 20 treat tasprisohers
Of mar those men who arg sent hero to apply tho
torch to Sillages and towns, to send tender chill
drsii asa skpary years ont inthe niflsss storm
20 beggary and starvation, to insult and;outrase
Ennprotectod females, to ;plundcr and desecrate,
Eand leave nothing intthcir path but misery and
ruin and dnyastatiun; aud doath; They threaten
retaliation upon our prisoners whenever We at
tempt to rstaliate upon them for thoir cold blood
cd murders, their house -burninga, their destrue.
ton Of crops, and thsir crnelties to our women
and children We.fcel deeply at all times for .orr
prisoncra; but it is syidens that if We yield to
Threats Of this kind, We shall mover correct tbs
terrible evil of which,ue are the yictims.f We
1 dc notbslisvc that retaliation would csuse'the
death osss.. single prisoner because ne haye'in
eurhands prsoners Of theirs upen whom we;ean
visit sYcrythins they inlet npon US. Bu.whas
no speciSlly desireis to sea saeiF~ own country
sabjscted TO- tho same sort Of trsatmsnt they are
yisitisg upon eurs. Ieeanpos hut happen, IN the
| course ef tho war, which promisesssto bsa long
one, ysf;. that ne shall again become temporary
-: :srs of some portisas Of thor torritory.
lsk suld that happen, We: should then rchlenbsr
lcwhnt.our course. has been on 6ormert like occa-
sions; ami what has been tie return. Ne Lope
not ono house viii bo left standing, or one blade
OF grass growing, heroafter, in any Yankee dis
trict that may fall Linto our hands. With regard
to such. demons and raaranders rs srgnxAN hos
lately led through our State, snd al auca every
where, We are. eonsinceds sthu. ,.he only nay to
deal with them is to hang thom IL 'canghf, and To
give them no quarter on tho fold of BATTLE. II
I'VE arc to be extorminated, let pur determination
cost the enemy ns much as possible. Do not let
thom slay .ua md not shy them in return.
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