The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-11-16
From The Seat Of War,

krom Inc seat Of war,
Advlces from South Carolina report
that in New York County three ladiss
have been arrested BY tho United States
military and put into prison; that 10 Ohoa,
ter village alone sixty.three arrests have
been made in week; that tho county Of
the same name Is allbut depopulssed; that
men are daily torn from their homes 10
Union County and carried 10 Columbia
to Jail; and that nightly under cover Of
darkness tho Federal s.cavalry steals forth
throughout oil the prosecuted COUNTIES Ia
make its arrests. Crops stand uugarnerea
lu tho Geld; stores remain unopened; no
man, however innocent, feels safe When
the spy the trooper are bis arhitors, and all
who can possibly leave the region thus tor.
mentcd arc moving away. It's horrible
to think that in America, six long yeara
since tho last war.oloud wont over, suoh Z
state Of things cxis,s. Midnight military
arrests vanished, wo thought, With the
close Of tho war; the cowardly murder Of
Mrs. Surratt We believed the lapt measure
ofhostility by great government agsinas
women; the depopulatiou Of whole districts
was something We supposed had passed
with those mournful times when refugees
fed by the thousands at tho tramp af on
advancing ioo 1t seems We were oil
wrong, lie who said "Letus have peace
is seen capable Of wagiug o daatardly mid,
night war; lc who was supposed 70 be
magnanimous is to-day kicking and beat,
Ing poor, conquered, helpless South Caro-,
lima now that she Is down, To think Of
"Iet US have peace" is now . horrible tra.
vesiy. To fancy Grant knows The means
log ofgreatncss Of heart Is to call up tho
picture Of a laurellod oonquerer biting aud
gougiug aud tearing, like some mercilesa
wild animal, the half-inauimate form Of
his fallen foe In any other man this
persecution, bad as it Is. would not bayc
been SO irredeemably base and dastardlyaa
now. The great Alexander, we all know,
had the defect ofbeing o wine.bibber the
great Morlbobovgh had an itching PALM
but neither Of those conquerers, nor any
popular hero in any great war, vas ever
before known to show tho unutterabla
smallues Of General Grant, tho type Of
northern victory, nauifests towards South
Carolina, the exempler Of Southern defeat.
Cast utterly down as she is, il seems IS Il
there were enough in her misfortunes 70
touch the heart even Of . asyage. Sha
was once the leader and tue chosen one
where her portion Is now 70 be uuhouored
and be last; prestige is gone, her past
glory obsculed, her pride broken, ,,her eye
dimmed, her hope gone. 10 us nature
ssssliiution of her presodt etsts Bvvs
srn,nept alone there is enough TO excite .
feeling Of fcompassion for her fate. Tho
spectacle is presented OF once commons
wealth ruled by rude aud ignorant barbar.
lans, her former slaves, obedient perforca
10 their fantastic legislation, and tributary
perforce To their savage exactlons. That
spectacle has not been lost upon the North.
There have been d hundred words Of cen,
sure for Georgia whore South Caroline has
received ono. It has been felt in some
way q mean and base thing to .exult oveF
80 utterly broken an antagonist.
And yet upon this community i Is that
Mr.. Grant hurls al The engines Of oppres.
sion at his command. Taxed and misgov,
erued almost 10 madness ssSouth Caroline
is by her present scoundrel State govern,
msnt, afflicted, too, BY The pestilenca
whict-daily sweeps Of from three 10 q
dozen people in her chief city, she Is nov
csllad on TO endure . merciless dragon,
made such as q Bourebon king onoa organ.
lied against the Puguenots who fed two
hundred years since from France W
America, thinking that here they and
their descendants might live exempt 10
seeula sGculorun, from the hand Of arbit.
rary powsr.-vN x. RorMs 3iieF7 Il