Treatment of captured Cities.
A new plan has been adopted by the
Yankees to bring the inhabitants of a captured my back to their allegiance to the
Union.
A rigid blockade is to be established, and no or provisions will be allowed to enter until the city has decided to maintain the ‘"Stars and Stripes,"’ and given, in an official form, its determination to become loyal to the
Government of
Abraham Lincoln.
Sub ion or starvation are to be the alternatives.
The first city in which this fiendish has been put in execution is
Norfolk, and we hear the people are beginning to suffer already for want of the necessaries of life.
Thus far the plan has not resulted as successfully as was anticipated, and, according to their own account, the
Yankees find the people willing to suffer any deprivation — to even, rather than perjure their souls by taking an oath to support a Government they thoroughly despise and detest.
Un there are a few despicable traitor slaves who are willing to sell their souls rather than deprive their worthless bodies of accustomed luxuries; but from
Norfolk correspondents of Northern papers we learn such are very rare.
Up to this time little Union sentiment has been discovered in the city — only three or four of the residents, and those men who care more for Yankee notions than for their own honor, have been induced to swear allegiance to the
North.
Gen. Wool has aned strict orders forbidding any trade with the city, and causes every person to be arrested who is detected in selling even a newspaper.
The city is entirely at the mercy of the
Yankee soldiery, and this thing may be ept up until the people die in the streets of lunger, as at the of
Rochelle.
New Orleans will probably be the next city which
Lincoln will endeavor to subdue by starvation.
