Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-26
OF war.

II BAJAzET. TAMERLAEE and GEN
CHS KHAN, like ALARIC and ATTILA,
waged war with merciless and savage
cruelty. and gave their soldiery free
license to indulge in the recreation Of
rApine and slaughter, they at least re-
Trained from insulting the world by pre-
fences Of humanity and generous elem
ency.
How did the Northern States, in the
main, conduct the war Of 1881 against
those who were Of the same race and
blood Is their own people Did they
restrain or license their white mercena-
ries from Canada and Europe, and their
black Mamelukes? Ask Virginia, the
first sufferer Ask Mississippi and Lou
isiana, and Georgia and South Carolina !
Travel upon the Mississippi, from Nicks-
burg 10 Baton Rouge, and up the Red
and Arkansas rivers, aud ask what has
become Of the dwelling houses on their
banksl Too generally the Northern
hordes, wherever they went, from the
beginning TO the end, ravaged like the
locusts, robbed, burned, and made the
country a desert. They killed rebels, as
the Colorado volunteers kill Indians for
their scalps with the ears on, or as the
Parigians kill rats for their skins. They
Quilted every house they entered, Of the
rich OF the poor, carrying away All that
they could and destroying whatthey could
not carry away. In Arkansas they made
il q rule to cut open the beds Of the poor
and scatter the feathers to the winds.
They stole whole libraries and sent the
books 10 the North. They conveyed
pictures, ornaments, watches, earrings,
other Jewels Of all kinds, portraits Of the
living and dead, the little keepsakes and
memorials which the piety Of affection
in vain implOred them 10 spare. They
wantonly burned dwellings, barns, gra-
naries, negro-quRrters they entered Ma
sonic Lodges and robbed them Of money
aud Jewels. Their officers, in captured
towns, borrowed blankets, glass and plate,
aud forgot % return them. Nothing wa
too sacred or too smell 70 escape their ra-
pacity. They glOried in ~plundering and
destroying. They excited the COmanche
Indians 10 murder along the Texan bOr-
der. and raviEhed the wives and daugh-
fers Of rebels in Virginia, Mississippi and
Tennessee. Their women at home urged
these heroes, in hundreds Of letters found
on battle-felds, to steal something for
them 10 wear as a trophy, as other
heroes had stolen for wives, sisters
and sweetheaFts. 1t is not ever now
d~isgraeeful for a Northern gen
tlsman' to have in his house
hooks conveyed there from Southern IL
braries, with the name Of the true owner
stiU stamped upon them for a lady to
wear the Jewels OF Southern women for
a hero to display 3 watch robbed from a
na0ro. On the contrary, these trophies
~ vaIour are shown with a just pride
a. the desolatiDg Of the South and the
~-s,Iainies Of s~HERSfAS's bummers are
accounted by respectable journals with
com5Iacent chuekles, and the saers
,nsntal bread is eaten In churches from
A pamphlet published by Governor
ATTvN Of Louisiana details the infamous
.tr,ci,ies committed by BANKS army
- chrl.tian heroes on Red River. Gen
s-sI HERRoN's report informs Us as to
d,lng. Of the troops stationed at
E,rt Smith 10 Arkansas under com
-a,d ~ General THAYER. They robbed
-, house in that portion Of the state
nv numbered the poorest IS mereiiessiy
= ne wealthy, the loyal equally with
.seossh, and sent the spoil IN
Government wagons to kansas
If to be supposed, how muehsoeyeF the
Nortb NAV desire it, that We shall not,
day, collect and publish the Whoie
o-rible account, and cruelty on the
oss Of eternal infamy the muiuindin-
rvfIlains of the Northern armies?
yi,sp CHAs. r. JENEIsoE. Colonel Of
Regimeut Kansas Cavalry Noiun-
was aeassed, by formaioharges and
toasions, Of hsying permitted the
his cs.kmand, IS northwestern
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