6 In Alabama the- conscription was prosecuted with still greater severity. During the winter of 1862, a young girl, while carrying food to her father, hidden in a cave, was attacked by one of these dogs, and literally torn to pieces. Also two women, who were making their way to Tuscumbia,..Franklin County, Alabama, were torn to pieces in the same way. In reference to the outrages committed in the above named States, General Dodge, in a letter* to a friend, says : “ That while their leaders, from the President down, boast of their carrying on this war in accordance with the laws that govern nations, a few simple facts will put them to the blush. Men and women are hung and shot, and hunted down .and captured by blood hounds ; fathers and husbands in the presence, and in spite of the tears and prayers of their wives and daughters, and many times with them, are hung or shot, blouses were burned over the heads of their inmates, and women and children turned out of doors, and the community solemnly warned not to receive or harbor them, at their peril.” The General says that “hundreds of men, women, and children, gray haired men, and cripples on crutches, were constantly fleeing from the tender mercies of these ‘ high-toned gentlemen ’ into his lines—Corinth, Mississippi—for life and protection, simply and only for opinion’s sake.” Will “ sympathizers”, any longer'doubt, or dare deny, that Union men, under the conscription, were hunted or. captured and mangled by blood hounds 1 Talk about “ arbitrary arrest ” and “ illegal imprisonment!” “Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.” In May, 1861, a rebel command tinder Debrell and Jenkins, natives of Tenn., went from Austin, Texas, to destroy a German settlement near FLPaso, of that State,- consisting of two hundred and fifty souls. From eighty to one hundred of these ruffians, without the slightest provocation, attacked this peaceful, prosperous, and thoroughly loyal community; and it is not known that three persons escaped. Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and helpless infants constituted one common scene of indiscriminate carnage, and houses, barns, and crops were burned and trampled from the face of the earth. Authority, Gen. J. B. Rogers. “ Sympathizers ” are horrified at any attempt to stop such work by “ coercion.” Will the American public endorse such doctrines, and their application ? “.Immediate efforts be made, for a cessation of hostilities.” In March, 1863, Capt. Montgomery was kidnapped, and taken to a rebel camp on the Rio Grande, Texas. Here he was informed that he was to be hung, and mockingly ordered to say his prayers ; a rope was placed about his neck, and he commanded to tell what he knew of the Federal forces. He refused—whereupon, fie was hung up to a branch of a tree until nearly dead, then let down ; when consciousness was restored, the same question was put, with the same result. He was then hung, where he remained until taken down, and buried by a friendly Mexican. When these cowardly murderers found it out, they disinterred the body, declaring that it should lay unburied, and thus rot. Capt. Bruin, of S. C., commanded this band of outlaws, and for this act of “bravery and good conduct,” in hanging a defenceless man, was promoted; and now rejoices in the title of Major of the 1st Texas Cavalry. Why not. call upon such men and their friends to guide the destinies of this great country for the next four years, and for all time ? Why not Z—Colonel Stanley, of Texas,
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