Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-25

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MAN left a hideOus record in Georgia,
aud a worse one in South Carolina. The
cavalry raids Of the Federals were gen
orally one continued scene of atrocities
that would have demoralized any troops
on earth. WELLISGTON pronounced his
own troops, towards the close ofthe
Peninsular War, the greatest black
guards on earth. All troops become
demoraIzed in a long war, especially in
sn enemy's countryi but when they
da1V and hourly commit, with entire
immunity, such outrages as disgrace hu-
mainly, it is the fault Of their officers.
Our armies in Mexico did not do it.
STEELE, SroNEMAr, MCPHERSON, and
many others did not allow SC. When
stolen property is exhibited with pride
as prize Of war, in tens Of thousands Of
Northern homes, it IS no wonder that
the prisons and penitsntiaries are re
plenished with reformed Heroes.
The Tribune coneedest that some Of the
| isiI-birds, doubtless, were lawless char
aeters before they entered the army"
1 Innocent, unsophisticsted Tribune Does
it not know that thousands Of seamps,
scoundrels, thieves, burglars, and all the
/ other rif-raf and rufianism Of the city
were hired in New York, IS eagerly as
if they had been honest and respectable
men, to don the Uniform and shoulder
the muskes Of the United States, and
rob and pillage and burn and murder
their way through the Southern States
What were the Fire Z0Usves, that were
| sent hither at the very beginning The
Z United States, and the city and State Of
New York, in procuring these men to
enlist, BY the offer Of b0uuties Of a mag
uiUude before unheard Of were guilty Of
as unpardOnabIe and monstrous q crime
and villainy IS if they had sent agents
into the dominions Of the inearnate
devil, thence to draw recruits for their
Vandalic hordes. In other States, Mas
sachusetts, for example, the same sort OF
wretehes were recruited, that the native.
born sons Of the State might not have
their lives put in jeopardy and it was
not the smallest part Of this iniquity,
that huge numbers of these disreputabIe
and obscene villains, the aggregated
scolndrelism Of the cities, were put by
the side Of msn really entitled to be
called heroes, of young men weIl-Faissd
and upright, to whom a base act was IN
known Of the yeomanry Of the East
and West, Who fought, as they consid-
cred, for their country and the Union, to
put down an H~Djustifable rebellion.
Among these the vile sewerage Of the
cities, collected with Infinite pains by The
Government, WIS poured, TO corrupt and
demoralze all with whom it came in
contset.
OF course many of the worst of this
banditti were elected to be field and
company officers, as sl know who saw
those that were in prison at Richmond,
captured in the earlier days. Of the war.
9" never saw such g set Of unmiIgated
blackgusrds," a Federal officer said to
US, a gentleman, himself a captive
among them, and treated as agentleman
by the Confederate authorities, because
he tCas such. Neither were al the ruff
anism and rscaille from the Atlantic re-
gion. The West furnished It's quota
also, hut not in a proportion so large.
The contribution Of Kansas was a very
handsome one; and it was q Michigan
captain who was convicted at Washing
ton, for stealing the ~statuettes from Old
Mrs. G-'s tomb near that city, and
sending them home to gFbS CON
servatory. go
We repeat, that tEsz. Book "a
the United States deliberately 5RNE =
ingly hired, 10y enormogl
thousands Of the worst men and greatest
criminals with which their cities were
infested, TO enter their armies. It was q
hideous crime against human nature;
and SEWARD and STANTON are respon-
sible, in a great measure, for the terrible
atrocities committed, contrary to the
laws Of war and to the laws Of hui
mainly, by those iucsrnate hends, all
over the Southern States.
The attempt TO whits-wash the I" re-
turned Heroes" as well as the dead
ones, en- Blasse, has proven a dead failure,
as it was a disgusting farce, too evidently
played for effect. In vain the identid-
cation Of graves and the Refinement Of
bodies, by well paid contractors, who
find a thousaEd or two dead heroes where
only seventy or eighty were reported
killed. In vain ~gloddcation and brag,
and buster and bouSty-lands, sermons
and orstions.
Every State can show her roll, Of sons
who lost their lives, and sons that sur
vive the fray, Of whom she has a right
to be proud; Of her young men Of good
lineage, Of education, Of intellecE Of
high hopes and brilliant promise for the
future, who fell ia the fray OF were saori-
feed in prison to the red Moloch Of War
by the cruel and besrtless policy of Sec
retsry STANTON, and the persistent viii
lainy Of adherence to the lying preteDce
that the men in arms for the South and
holding Northern prisoners were traitors
and rebels, not entitled to the c~ourtesies
and charities Of war. Let these thou
sands, young and old, living and dead,
have immortal honour, as 81 men should,
who offer up their lives for pure love Of
country or jealousy Of its honour, or for
their faith, or in the assertion and main
tainance Of N idea, even If it BE- an eg-
ror.
But one would needs laugh in the face
Of another whe should gravely declare
that armies of patriotic men can be
gathered together by the giving OF en0r-.
nous bounties, or that ia an army so.
procured, there will not be q large pro-
portion, 1T only for the House Of Correc-.
ton, the tresd-mill, the hulks, the peni-
Tertiary and the gallows. One thing is
certain, that if the South, in her direst
extremity, when hardest pressed and
most exhausted, had found herself COM
PEELED to resort to bouDties as enormous
as those given in New York and New
England, 10 I'll the thin and e~nfeeuled
ranks Of her defenders, and if she had
so raised armies where before, under the
spur Of patriotism, honor and glory and
duty alone, she could not raise battalions,
one pen, at least, should have written no
indiscriminate eulogies on the heroes Of
the lost cause. II the South had sue
ceeded, through such means, no,
laurels should have been decreed, II we
could have prevented, to those whom
bounties only could persuade into the
ranks. The country would have bought
them in open market, and honestly paid
the price agreed. They would have bar
gained for no reward Of glory or national
gratitude, or honour to their names and
memories. Shame and the fear Of con-
fanuwsu~,-- -sar.-F. .I.s.fl 49, 49, a.