most fiendish crime that can be perpetrated by a cowardly and cruel nature.
The account we publish to-day of the massacre of ten Confederate prisoners of war at Palmyra in Missouri, will be read with a shudder all over Christendom.
General McNeil has earned for himself a place among the monsters who shed blood lovingly.
We need not recount here the details of this sickening tragedy.
The cool, deliberate selection of the ten victims — all, as we should judge from their names, native Americans; the parading them with their coffees beside them; the slow and lengthened procession to the distant place of slaughter; the drawing up of the firing party; the partially ineffectual fire; and then the general finish of the massacre with revolvers — all this is (old without sympathy or censure, by a friend of the assassins; but the facts themselves will command the interest of every reader.
And what had these poor men done?
How had they forfeited their right to be treated as prisoners of
d said "the institution of slavery ought to withal in the storm it had raised." A resolution of thanks to Gen. Rosecrans was offered in the U. S. Senate, but not passed — in the House a vote of thanks to Hurst Butler adopted.
The leading members of the New York Chamber of Commerce are out in a card protesting against the use of their rooms for the public reception of Burst Butler.
We give below some extracts of interest.
Full Particulars of the Lose of the Monitor.
The Baltimore Americans correspondent at Fortress Monroe the following account of the loss of the iron-clad steamer Monitor, obtained from her officers:
We left Fortress Monroe on Monday, 10th December, in low of the Rhode Island, with the Passage in fow of State of Georgia Cape Henry afternoon at five o'clock, with a month and light winds.
The was way ahead.
The weather continued Gan until five o'clock on Tuesday morning when it commenced to blow from the N. W, with a heavy sea running making a c
etition is to quietly leave your present fields of labor, homes to which, perhaps, you may be attached, and the graves of your kindred and migrate southward, and occupy the places made vacant by the exodus of what his Excellency terms the "free Americans of African descent." That is the sum and substance of it.
But, for the sake of argument, admit, if you choose, that all the plans of the President touching emancipation and colonization of the negro were to-day successfully carried out, wh men more devoted to the Constitution and laws of the country than all of them together.
Now, after all these outrages, you propose to invest the President with power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, the great birthright of Englishmen and Americans and which has never, until now, been disregarded under any circumstances in this country, except inside the actual lines of the army.
Mr. Chairman, I have talked warmly upon this subject because I felt deeply.
I have advised, and now advi
f oriental ruthlessness and energy has moved so long that the work of four years and indefinite -boxes in America may perhaps be done there in a single night with a stout piece of whig-cord.
For it will never be said of Mr. Lincoln, at says of , that he surrounded himself with unnecessary constitutional restraints.
Sumner, Werdell, Phillips, Chandler, Wade, Howe, the whose love of the Greeks is only equalled by his hatred of his own people, and the philanthropist who holds that all Americans who are neither black nor blind deserve to be exterminated would doubtless go with their chiefs, each man bearing, after the classic fashion his bowie-knife is a myrtle hough.
Welles, we fear, cannot be spaced, from the efficient protection of our commerce; and the brilliant character of their successes in the West and in Virginia will probably compel us to detain Stanton and Hallock till their services can be adequately rewarded.
Lycurgules and Solons we have none to give.--But such
s gave us, will soon be lost, and the country be forever and irretrievably ruined."
The Bayton (Ohio) Empire says: "It is hard to conceive of the great joy that will animate and enliven the hearts of the people when this cruel slaughter of Americans by Americans is ended: when the martial music of the hateful fife and drum is superceded by the sweet song of pence; when the march of armies give way to the march of industry and civilization; when spears shall be turned into pruning hooks andAmericans is ended: when the martial music of the hateful fife and drum is superceded by the sweet song of pence; when the march of armies give way to the march of industry and civilization; when spears shall be turned into pruning hooks and swords into plowshares; and the Goddess of Liberty, folding away forever the blood stained banner of civil war, wears upon her wounded bosom the healing olive branch of peace."
The Fort Warren (Ind) Sentinel says: "In view of the disasters which attend our arms on the Potomac, the utter demoralization of our army, the dissections among our Generals, and the determination of Lincoln, Stanton, and Halleck, to prevent Gen. McClellan or any of his friends — or, in fact, any Democratic General
ree traders of the lower Mississippi.
It is all a delusion; a criminal, awful mistake.
The men of the West utterly abhor Abolitionism, Puritanism, tariffism, and all the other devilisms of New England.
They want free trade and union with all Americans; but, above all, with their own natural brothers of the lower Mississippi, rather than with Virginians or Vermonters; and if New England resists this, and demands special privileges in the form of tariffs and, moreover, insists on cutting each and perhaps, if the proclamation is successful, half a million of big and little negroes and, as far as she is concerned, the loss of the Union forever What a beautiful State, to be sure!--half a million of paupers, and half a million of "free Americans of African descent." and a debt of two thousand millions, and worse than all, with no more chance to plunder other States through her tariff humbugs!
Nor is this likely to be the whole affair.
All the Abolition lunatics of the other States, w
"Who made these propositions for an armistice or peace, the adoption of which Mr. Wood pretends to believe would have settled the matter by all fool's day. If so, how does Mr. Wood know anything about them?
Has he been in secret correspondence with the enemy?
Or were they made by some of the anti-war men here?
If so, who authorized them; and what are the terms of the propositions from which Mr. Wood hopes so much?
If they are honorable to the nation, if they are such as patriotic Americans ought to laver, why not make them public at once?
To which I say, in reply, that the statement referred to by me was made deliberately, with a full and personal knowledge of the facts, and that I am constrained from the publicity of them only by the request of one of the principal officers of the Government.
When this interdiction shall be withdrawn I will cheerfully gratify your curiosity. Very respectfully, Fernando Wood. March 11, 1863.
Secession music and pictures in B
and American Rebellion of 76.
If he had belonged to "the loyal portion of the Americans" of his day, he would have been an obscure Tory, and George the Third would never have lost his American Colonies — George the Third had a better right to these colonies than Abraham Lincoln to the Southern States.
No one disputed that George III was their rightful King, whereas the co-equal sovereignty of the States with the Federal Government was a part of the political creed of the vast majority of Americans till the beginning of this war. But George Washington was an out and out rebel, and with rebellion "all the glorious associations of our history" are indissolubly intertwined.
So that instead of surrendering, as Mr. Adams ridiculously says, the men and traditions of our most illustrious era, we are only carrying out the lesson they taught us — resistance to tyrants, at whatever peril of life, property, and all worldly interests.
What did the American Colonies ever suffer at the hands
Edward Everett.
--The Paris correspondent of the New York World gives the following benne bouchs to Edward Everett:
A good many Americans in Paris hung down their heads on reading that "the Hon. Edward Everett hung out a new flag to welcome Butter to Boston" Edward Everett, the pink of propriety, the model statesmar the Athenian scholar, the perfect gentleman — doing homage to that man Butter, who has committed every crime in the calendar.
Oh, it is a flagrant abomination!
How are the mighty fallen.
There are many citizens of New Orleans here in Paris who "black maded" Hatler to get away and who show their passports and the princes paid for them, with Batter's in his own handwriting.
Although we are greatly on the arrival of every steamer to see that Butter is having justice done him in the World, yet we cannot retrain from expressing a little of the universal contempt which is felt for the brave in Europe, and for all who honor him.
y attained in the North by talking than by acting.
Admiring biographers record with enthusiasm his persistent testimony to his own military qualities.
He is said to have obtained his first command during the war by assuring the President, with an oath, that he was better than any other General in his service.--As a Brigadier he informed his friends that he ought to be Commander in-Chief; and he has loudly boasted of the victory which he would if it had so happened, have won at Antietam.
Americans are strangely constituted, and perhaps a bragging General may succeed in keeping up the courage of his troops.
Both for personal and political reasons, Gen. Hooker will probably attempt a forward movement as soon as the roads are open. --The Federal Government has evidently resolved to put forth its strength in a final effort at all points of the line, before the pressure for peace becomes irresistible.
The financial condition of the North becomes daily more embarrassed and more unin
