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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The flag of truce. (search)
Consistent humanity.
The Yankees, who have been separating parents from their children, and confining them in loathsome dangerous ever since the beginning of the war, hold up their hands in Terror at an unparalleled atrocity which they solemnly assert some of the Confederates have committed in Pennsylvania--separating cows from their calves!
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Results of drafting in the North . (search)
African soldiers.
Among the gallant cavaliers who lately made a raid into Ashland were several "gentlemen of color"from Pennsylvania, who seemed to be on a perfect equality with their white-skinned comrades, cavorted about furiously, and anathematized fiercely the "d — d rebels." There was a time when this would have seemed the climax of indignities, but the Yankees have conducted themselves so much worse than negroes since the beginning of this war, that the appearance of Cuffee in uniform is rather an amelioration than an aggravation of the insults of this invasion.
The truth is, even the free negro, low as he is in the scale of humanity, is not as degraded nor abominable, in the sight of Heaven or mankind, as the degenerate and debauched descendants of the old New England Puritans, who are carrying on this war. They themselves admit that they are no better, by mingling with them on terms of perfect equality.
We perfectly understand the base passions which prompt them to