The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-12
rETTER FROM WARRINGTON
All Abont Blood and Bones.

Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial
WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1860.
Let the timid, faint hearted and weak
lkneed. uclspt conservatives, talk as tney
nIease about the benign influences OF
magnanlmity to a fallen foe; let tneIl
nreach as they will their obtuse doctrine
of charity and forgiveness; let them eA
tol oc they NAV that once divine, but no"
satanic attribute of mercy and clemency.
Tbese NAV have all been very well LOT
other DAYS and other crimes, but LOT I1e
late rebellion and the suppressed TeotlS'
ali hail to the era of blood! Conclllauoh
nav have healed national wounds mel .
tofore-plebotomy alone can DO IL now
So Julian says, so Sumner says ana 30 Ine
nodicals one and all say-and ought they
ot IN know? Blood is the thing after
all, Let us, therefore, throw away the
to,,rniouit which the conservatives woulo
60 annlv to the national artery, ana let
,,sn the lance instead. Let US nave
Tood NV all means Blood to babble IN
$ brooks, blood to gurgle in streams oiooo
E ~ Nm in rivers, and blood to surge In
ocean billowsl Blood anyhow
Talk of mercy to rebels why, &C
oording to the very highest poetlcal au>
tboritv' mercy is a double back action
arrangement, working both wayS-oles-
sing both giver and receiver. we can
he 7.mercifup in the present Crisis, WIN
ont blessing these hell>born, hell,D :,
E, internal, infamous rebels. mo" loyat
it makes man feel to denounoe 80 80
nowi And there's no danger OF penn
n+ 70 the front, on a draft to prov
. ro,,r faith by your works. 1t involves u
sy;sII whatever-so different from two Q
three wears ago As for clemency' M
Snnonsr has written dozen pages In IN
Atlantic about Scylla and Chary Ddls, an
. other Greek things, to show that 1t won
do at all. None but the vilest copper
LooS would be clement under the Gil
n,,rostances-V allandigham, for instanc
Who is Clement simply because the parse
~ toId him he was, soon after his appea
VS. orca in this world in the form OF cope
head baby. ~ .oo.o
men cry for blood, and let US all u
- the CORY radicals. All who fall 10 sue
80 for general hanging, universal connss
J., t;or and sweeping determination In
So,,tbern States, are henceforth copp
beads and traitors, and they must 60 IL
o1+er darkness, where shall be weepl
tic. yailing and crashing of teeth, and
;ptarnal revenue collectorships or assess
~ obins most offices, or anything. OF I
wi lucrative nature! But In the langu
If the orthodox sermonizer, ITO rel'
- to our subject: Blood Is what We we
and blood we must have.
Mr. Julian calls for universal hang
down South, but l object to that proc
NTS. simply because there IS no gore apou
PEOPLE somehow or other associate
idea of hanging with the ldea Oh u
- when in fact there Is not less sangul'
BORNE institution in the country tnan Ihe
lows. l have seen seven lnolVloualS u
Raj ferred from this world 10 the
tic through the hempen expedlent'
O0' lever q drop of blood shed on a ga
nc ,1ot and the thing is done in such a
L -, - ;;bot oven Julian could not derive 7
sotisfaction from seeing it. Egad a II
Cotton looks better sometimes after hanging
d3'm he ever did before-more placid,
1870 more peaceful. This would
do for the internal rebels-say Tor
6avis. You might hang him. but
;f his cussed neck didn't break, tne
torres, cess of strangulation would not
the listening ear and watching e
.,eat Jnlian more than few delgntIul
Ala ments. and then when you cut MIN
ten chances to one but ne woulu 1oo
one who had wrapped Ine 1rSp'
n II his couch about him ana laiu uo
no nls -. droams" A sudden click OF
lhO. f,li a few struggles, an effort TO
the 60 ground, and death in conseques
trdnee' ~ failure that is all there is about
ing, and Julian must have a nstuf :
analogous to that which enables
-, o. s;y honey from the most ungaln
u nnsayory of plants if, he can derive
satisfaction from so trifing perfol
lioo''D To he sure, it might be little
70 sea Jeff. with his hands ana 10