The Placer herald., 1866-09-29
The Barbarian and Cruelty Of tho South.

The Barbarism and Cruelty Of tho South.
This is theme that has supplied the food
for sensation lectures and newspaper illus,rs.
tions for twenty years past. 1t is as much
30 now as formerly. We had one Of these
itinerant lecturers in Auburn last week, 40
tonishing the natives with his tale of hor.
ror." Unil man is regenerated anil made
perfect we expect to hear Of individual in.
stances Of outrage and crime in every coau.
try, in all communities, and in every cIas,
Of SO. isty. 1t a ways has been the case, and
those communities where the radicals have
had 1t all ller own way, have not proven
an exception to the rule. We have
an account ola Radical preacher in York
state whipping his infant son, three years old
to DEATH because he would not or could not
say his prayers. We are informed il j. q
cu't'm to whip young LADIES a, tbs schools
in Boston, apother young lady being r-quir.
ed 10 play the piano pending punishment;
and 'ha. they have at Lowell, Mass, board
ing house where they put infant children TO
sarve to death. A San Francisco paper ad,
United the other day THAT insauticids was .
very common cI lime ip ths, city.
These things are very wrong, the recital
Of them fills US with horror, but we don,
expec, to work any reformation in the com
mnniles seferre1 to BY telling Of them in
i'lace1 eppnt!; We would do much bet.es by
"clothing the Greeks at our own steps."-
These lecturers don't expect to do any good
tor the sufferers; they only seek TO inflame
the minds Of the people Of one section
against those Of another, and are the most
practical disunionisrs we have ever had.
There are a few facts Of a general nature.
very stubborn things, when considered in
connection with til. subject. For examp|-:
Before emanci patton tux place in the Sou b..
the negroes numbered four million souls,
were we'll fed, clothed, and ,heir health so
we'll cared for ty that people, that tbry were
charged with breeding sIayes for market
Since eman'i patton has become fact, and
the care Of these negroes has been assumed
by the army and Fresdman's Bureau, one
fourth Of these negroes have died. and this
Wholesale work Of derimasiop j. going on
daily.
During the war much capital vas made
out Of the charge, that the Confederate.
were by their cruelles numbering the Fed.
eral prisoners in their bands; now il appears
frnip the statistics that there were pol 900
Union prisoners in their hands during the
war, Of whom % 800 died; 200 900 Con fed,
crates fell into our hands, and Of The number
26,5OO died. That is, one Confederate ou,
Of every fifteen died in the Federal prison
pens. and only one Federal out Of over
twenty in lheig hands These fact, speak for
themselves.
When we consider that much Il not all Of
the extra hardships Of our soldiers in the
hands Of the Con fe'l-rales was unavoida liable,
from the srantiness Of their means. and tha,
in the Northern prisons no such excuse can
be urged, posteri'y, If not the living. will
charge US with the most wanton and wilfuI
cruelty. 1t is from facts Of general ma, ur..
Ike the fo'goi"g, that fair pinded people
will make lhtir deductions when Judging OF
an epoch, an age or people, and to such
pu'hs We think the people should listen, and
give tie cold shoulder to these trayelng
sensation mongers.