The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-06

FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 6, 1867
Two Letters, forming part Of cores
,or.jence between the Yankee General
Klpatrick and the Confederate General
Wheeler. have been published in the
Yankee papers. Wheeler it seems.
| had appealed to Fitzpatrick, by the ties
O. ancient acquaintance, to spare the un-
happy families who came within the line
of his march as far as possible. Hi
natr;rhs answer is characteristic IN
l-h degree. He tells Wheeler that, &C
carl;0c to the statement Of Governor
Brown, his own (Wheelcr's) soldiers
have been in the habit Of depredatins
uDon the families Of Georgia, and that
he cannot expect his (Kilpatrick's) men
10 behave any better, being avowed enc
mics. In the opinion Of this Yankee
Tcneral, then, two wrongs make right,
and because man has been cuifed by
friend, an enemy has perfect right to
murder him outright. The morality OF
tbs conclusion is peculiarly Yankee, and
such as was to have been expected from
Yankee general. Because Confede-
rate reg;nent burns citizens fence, or
steals his turnips and potatoes, Yankee
regiment is iusttiable in burning all the
houses, mills, barns and provisions in his
neishborhood, besides violating the fe-
males and beating and numbering the old
1 men and children.
kipatrick, not content with delivering
J himself OF this precious scrap ofmoralit,y,
q turns preacher, after the fashion Of the
& Boston saints, and rebukes the people
D Of Georgia in a lofty strain. "War is
q tcrrible,' he says, land the people of
8 Georgia are now being made to feel this
g in all it's force" There is truth in this,
D il the devil had spoken. The war which
4 the people of Georgia were made to feel
81 is more terrible than the war which the
o Cherokecs and Seminoles waged in by.
. gone DAYS Murder and conflasration
8 have been the principal weapons with
q which it was fought, and by means OF
8 these weapons the Yankees have sought
81 70 DO that which they have become aware
B they cannot do by fair fighting. We
q know Of no man so well qualified to lee
" ture on the horrors of war as Yankee
81 brigand transformed into a majo orgeneral
:" Had the people cf the Confederate
II States" Continues this plundering epls
N Sary Of the "best government or
earth" "and especially those of South
81 Carolina, ever known and fel. wha'
Ia the people Of Georgia now know
81 and fceeI, no hostile shot would ever
81 have struc, the sacred walls of Sumter.
" lie Is mistaken The people of the Con
81 fe,eratc States, including the people 0
s9 South Carolina, kneS well enough tha
:. the Yankees were not more than hal
civilized, and that they would wage th'
n wal like barbarians long before they be-
gan it. They have not been djsappointe,
Il IN q single instance, because they ex
pcCted nothing but such treatment a
captivcs receive from bgigands and
whenever they have fallen into the hand
Of Yankees, they have received it. The,
are well aware too, that no country wa
eyer conquered by any such process a
thls, and Fitzpatrick, were he anythin
else taan thc brigand he is, would kIoS
il 100.
General Wheeler makes suitable re
ply to these iinpertinenccs. He indie
h&huy repcis the insinuation that hi
soldiers had been allowed TO depredat
On the inhabitants. "They have bee
taught" he says, to despise and spur
Tie cowarily instincts which induce 10,
men to frighten, abuse and. rob defence
ieSs WOMEN and children and, he adds
Ihe history Of no war. however bal