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e criminals in loathsome cells since the beginning of this war; but as soon as they had succeeded in making a larger number of prisoners than those in our possession, they shamefully refused to keep their word. They proclaimed safety and protection to the Southern region which should be occupied by their armies, and they have fulfilled their promise by destroying furniture, burning houses, arresting and imprisoning, and sometimes murdering in cold blood, peaceful and unoffending citizens. Burnside and Goldsborough made a pompous proclamation on the coast of North Carolina that they came there with the most Christian and humans intentions, and followed it up by deliberately shelling a town full of women and children, without giving them an opportunity to escape, and even firing upon vessels which were carrying off the helpless and terror stricken fugitives. And are we to believe such a people still, when they promise that, if we will only yield to their demands, we shall not surely d