The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-11-19
Some Thoughts suggested by the s"'
ban IlnbrogliO.

behalf Of the United States; unless, lndccd,
with deeper policy than / suspect, the pur-
nose be TO embarrass the Federal AdmlntS-
tratIon. which, presume, is very much OPP
noscd to war. Really there will be no war.
The trade of the United States with Cuba Is
worth not less than one hundred millions
of dollars per annum, and no Yankee, how
ever ne NAV rant and bluster about his "oid
flag y and the slaughter of his fcllow-ciizcnss,
will ever rcfus ean apology worth one hundred
millions per annum, for that flas symbolizcs
Namnon. Besides this, the commerce OF
the United States and what shipping we ieit
them will suffer by priratecrlnS good deal
more than another hundred millions per an
mum. And finally. the Government, which,
as well as the people. is now in the straits
of a protracted money panic, cannot raise
the means to carry on war; for no matter
what Congress may do, it will take not less
than year to restore the credit andmrutl-
dencc which gave way when it was found
that banks, as rule. preferred fancy 'ecllrl-
,ics-or insecurties-to loans on produc-
tion. There will be no war unless Spain Is
crazy.
Rnt in anv event why should the South
he so indignant! "Therc are crimes, says
the New York Herald, speaking of this
thing. (which outrage humanity and cX-
ha,lst the patience of the civilized world"
Very true; and some Of them nearer home
Than Jamaica. One hundred and eleven men
uulawfuIlv captured in the effort to do an
unlawful act are shot on Spanish RESPONSE
LiIitv. But in the United States il Is in
proof, upon evidence that can be produced
in this city of Richmond to-day, that more
than ten times that number of Confederate
men. CAPTURED in a war where beligcrent
rights were conceded by the Yankee Gov
eminent, were kept pining in unwholesomc
prisons, upon insufficient rationS, until they
died, though abundant means to make them
comfortable were at hand. An equal num-
Der of Yankee prisoners were held by us
under our protest of inability to provide
for them until they, too, died. This man
who thus outraged humanity was General
Grant. Not only can it be proven. but 1t
has been openly charged upon him in Con-
wrc-s hy his then enemy, but now friend
and ally, General Butler. After the war Il
door. sick, diving Confederate Captain WirZ)
was put upon trial Tor this act of General
Granl's-waS daily led to the bar in irons to
feast the eyes of the vuturcs, male and te-
male, impatient to STE him dlc-anu after
weeks of torture was hanged by the ludg-
mcnt of military commission who refused
to take the testimony that would have fixed
the ~uiIt on General Grant. Now, how much
worse than that has the Captain-General OF
Cuba acted: Which transaction has III 1t
most Of cod-boodcd atrocity:
1t is true we have lost in Captain Fry 4
gallant ex- Confederate. But did we moi also
lose as gallant an officer of our Confederate
navy in Captain Bcall, tried and banged by
the Yankee Government after the war was
over, and when there could have been not
even the danger of bad example in grant
inr q pardon. Looking at both transactions,
il seems to Inc that the balance Of outrage Is
against that nation which put Captain Beall
through the forms of 4 trial, md thereby
Glazed malienity and cruelty with the devil,
darling sin--hypocrlSy.
Take still another case. \ woman with
out evidence of her guilt was tried, con-
dpmucd bv a military tribunal "iinst law.
and hurried to execution by Bingham and
Holt and johnson. under circumstances OF
outrage so great that even Mumfords mur-
dcrcr charged this as murder in the House
Of Representatives upon Bingham. and to-
day Holt and Johnson arc each trying TO Fix
tue 3Ulll Oh IL ultll tIlt olilti. LAS Stlb'
ever treated us worse than that:
But look at another thing that touches us
more nearly than any OF these. | mean the
honor Of our women. When the clrlste and
refined Puritan General Butler issued that
memorable order which gct him the appro-
pirate prefix of Beast we all expressed our
horror: and that as much lis his murder OF
Mrmlord caused bis outlawry by the Con-
tcucratc Executive. But rs if 10 improve
on that. the miscrcantS Of General Grant :
pct government, whose uSurpcd authority
he established. and which now reports to him
at Wa>hington--l mean the Kellogg govern
mcut. of Loui>ana-theSe mi.creauts turned
loose black negroes TO ray>h white women :
and il General Grant has yet taken notice OF
the fact the public is not Informed OF it,
though his attention was mildly called TO it by
papers which are now ready 10 wage war
against Cuba, aS if they thought the killing
of one unhappy gentleman, who took the
risk when he took command, and OF one
hundred other men who are nothing TO Us,
was Il matter of more concern and more
atrocitv than the rape Of southern ladies by
negroes under white guidance.
Aiming TO he as di>paSSionatc as | can
when | rccte fact which strangely enough
our papers appear to have treated as but
little more than passing itcm," but which
it seems TO me should send Shuddcr
through every southern heart "and eX-
haust the patience of the civilized world.''
give the conclusion of the Herdid'S sen
tencc: "Crmes," it says, ," which by their
enormity prompt the uprising of vigilance
committees, and the swift punishment of the
offenders without the tardy process OF the
machinery of the law" Suppose the rela-
tires of those hapless ladies had appraised 4
vigilance committee and swiftly punished
these worse than Spaniards. How long
would ii have been before General CRAM
would have suppressed this rebellion ana
had the kukluX punished! Shot, Us the
Americans were lately in Cuba, by the or
dcrs of one of his lieutcnants, with an ac-
commandment of more ropes!
These few facts, selected from the long
r,tolon,le of grievances under which We
daily suffer, are they not perfectly fair eX'
nmnles of the policy of the Government
that is to say, the people of the ruling
States-against Virginia and her southern
sisters: Every man knows that from the
surrender of Lee and Johnston to this hour
when McTcigh is to stand indicted by a
iurv of Radicals in Federal court for slap
ming a man whose conduct the Supreme
Court itself has pronounced blot upon oul
iurisprudcnce-th whole treatment of the
South has been worse than Cuba's late
flsilade, because it has been taken against
peaceful fellow citizens and intended to in.
suit and cnsave them.
For more than eight years we have looked
for judgment, but behold oppression for
Justice, but behold Il cry.
s''rhc hand of him who slew
His children humbly 10 his lips to raise
was what old Priam thought the extreme OF
wrctchedncs>. But for us, in our circum.
stances, not only to do that, but to offer the