Yankee Indigent on.
--The Cincinnati
Commercial and Pittabury
Dispatch are highly indignant at what they call the ‘"distinguished consideration"’ paid to ‘"seven rabid secessionists from
Maysville,"’ prisoners in charge of a Lieutenant and squad of six soldiers, on their way to some Eastern Bastile.
The
Dispatch evidently thinks they should not be treated with common decency or humanity.
It says:
On reaching the city these ‘"unfortunate gentlemen"’ are conducted, not to jail, but to the
Monongahela House, and there, until the hour for the departure of the train, fare sumptuously.
They were bibulous, these Southern gentlemen, and patronized the bar extensively, and, while they indulged their taste for extra drisks, sharpened also their trenchant wits at the expense of the guards, whose duty required them to pace back and forth in the same room.
They had appetites, too, these gentlemen, and appeased their hunger at the general table; were their guards in the list of those who sat at the board — We opine not. ‘"
Privates"’ are not treated with just so much consideration.
The hour for the departure of the train arrived, and the ‘"gentlemen"’ were notified of the fact.
They had considerable age with them, and in view of their distinguished position as prisoners, the luggage said was handled by the guards, while the owners looked on approvingly.
One of the gentlemen had brought his shawl with him, and finding it rather cumbersome, tossed it patronizingly on the shoulder of the nearest soldier, to carry for him. A light rain was falling as the party set out for the station, and in what style does the reader suppose this trip was made?
Not with the ‘"Secesher"’ on foot, surrounded with their guards, as they should have been but the omnibus of their hotel is placed at their service, and they seat themselves comfortably in it, while their guards tramp through the raid and slush beside, one of them loaded with his prisoner's shawl and his own musket.
There is something so exquisitely absurd in the manner in which this business is conducted, that even wrathful comment at its injustice is disarmed.
The scoundrels who have been using their utmost efforts to overthrow our Government are treated with as much consideration as if they had been conferring a favor; and the very men who have sacrificed the comforts of home and kindred to crush them down, are made their servants — to be sneered at and scorned.
Who wouldn't be a prisoner?
