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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hospitality of Virginia. (search)
The atrocities of the Yankees. In a letter to his Minister at Copenhagen, dated 14th April, 1863, Seward said: "It looks as if, by another year, we can put down the rebellion by starvation, if in no other way." This was the first hint of that system which has since been deliberately and persistently followed by the Yankee armies, and which has given rise to cruelties such as the world has never witnessed since the irruption of the Northern barbarians into the provinces of the Roman Empire, unless, it may be, in the war of the Turks upon the Greeks, or in the civil war, of Mexico and the Spanish States of South America. The Yankee Government has systematically engaged in the project of starving eight millions of people, men, women, and children, whom it has found it impossible to subdues by force of arms. In the pursuit of this horrible object the simplest dictates of humanity are utterly disregarded. Murders are of every day occurrence, and still more numerous are the instanc