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The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Contraband — their Sad fate. (search)
s, and sent him to the Western forests, covered with sores and cursed with the vices of civilization! The illustrations of the misery the Yankees are bringing upon the hapless children of Africa — those "American citizens of African descent," as the hideous monster at the lead of the Federal Government styles them in mockery — are of daily occurrence. An instance just to hand is afforded in an order issued by A. W. Kelley, Yankee Surgeon and Health Officer at Natchez, approved by Brig. Gen. Tuttle, in command. This order we published in the Dispatch yesterday morning. In this order the negroes are pronounced lazy and profligate, unused to caring for "themselves, thriftless for the present, improvident of the future." He adds: "The most of them loaf idly about the streets and alleys, prowling in secret places, and lounge lazily in crowded hovels, which soon become dens of noisome filth, the hot-beds fit to engender and rapidly disseminate the most loathsome and malignant diseas