Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-07-26
PERSONAL SECURITY IN THE SOUTH. A

PERSONAL SECURITY IN THE SOUTH. "A
serious and Injurious error has long been rooted
in the Northern mind. 1t is the belief that a
Northern man person and property are unsafe
IN the Southern country The delusion is so
fast and deep set as to seem ineradicable. Yet
little reflection ought to teach the dullest
mind that the impression is wholly without
truth or foundation.
Northern men are to be found by hundreds
in our towns and thousands in our cltles:--
They are in the South in every conceivable
capacity-as officers Of the internal revenue, as
agents and sub-agents OF the Freedmen's s
Bureau, as members of the boards OF registra-
ton, as itinerant political missionaries, as
teachers Of freedmen's schools, as preachers or
the Gospel and abolitionlsm, as explorers Tor
minerals, as founders OF manufactures, as
purchasers OF land, as merchants and mer-
chants clerks as visitors or relatives OF North
ern men already here, as travellers on railroads,
as officers of federal courts and national banks,
and in many other capacities. They arc here
in relations agreeable 10 the people; they are
here in performance Of functious excessively
disagreeabe to the populace. And yet there
are scarcely as many cases OF violence ana
injury perperated in the whole South in any
week or month, or year, as are reported III the
city OF N Y alone and none OF the cases that
do occur are cases of injury to Northern men
impelled by sectional hostility or resentment;
The criminal records of no country CT equal
population and extent with the South, show
fewer infractions of the law, or Of the order
and decorum of society, than those OF our
country Norfolk Joarmm.
A FIaHT BETWEEN ELEVEN HUNDRED
HORSES. --Southey, in his History Of the,
Peninsular War, relates the following 1.-TWO
Of the Spanish regiments which had been
uuartered in Funen were cavalry, mounted on
fine black lonetailed Andaluslan horses. 1t
was impossible to bring off these h0rses--about
100 in number-and Romano was not q man
who could order them to be destroyed; he was
fond of horses himself, and knew that every
man was attached to his beast, which had car
ried him 50 far and 80 faithfully Their brides
were therefore taken off and they were turned
loose upon the beach A scene ensued such as
was never before witnessed They became
sensible that they were no longer under the
restraint Of any human power. A general
conflict ensued, in which, retaining the diScl-
pline they had learned, they charged each
other in squadrons Of ten or twelve together,
then closely engaged, striking with their fore
feet, and biting and tearing each other with
the most ferocious rage, and tramplng over
those who were beaten down, till the whole
shore, in the course of an hour, was strewn
with the dead and disabled Part Of them had
been set free on rising ground at distance
They no sooner heard the roar of battle, than
they came laundering down over the interme-
date hedges, and catching the contagious mad
ness, plunged into the fight with equal fury,
Sublime as the scene was, it was too horrible
to be long contemplated, and Romano, in mer-
cy, gave orders to destroy them. But 1t was
too dangerous to attempt this, and after the
last boat had quilted the beach, the few horses
that remained were still engaged in the dread
full work of mutual destruction.