8 batteries on White River, in Arkansas, a shot from one of their batteries exploded the boiler of the Mound City. To avoid death by scalding, the crew leaped overboard, for whose rescue small boats were immediately sent. । The rebels fired large guns and musketry upon the struggling, drowning men, and upon the crews of the boats sent to their aid, as they did under similar circumstances in the harbor of Mobile, upon the crew and officers of the unfortunate Tecumseh. This was done under the eye of Admiral Davis, who distinctly saw the cowardly act, and remarks in his report, “ that the country will contrast these barbarities of a savage enemy with the hundred efforts made by our own people to rescue the wounded and, disabled, under like circumstances, in the engagement of the 6th.” “Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities.” Rev. Mr. Angesey, of Miss., states that “he was seized by the rebels, heavily ironed, and, with eighty others, placed in a dungeon ; my crime was that I defended the Union cause. While I was in prison, numbers were led out and shot. At first those in charge provided coffins; but the great number of executions exceeding the supply, they dug a trench, and made the man sit down on the brink, when a file of soldiers advanced and fired three balls into the head and three into the hearts of their victims ; this was the mode of execution.” He further states, that “ he was himself hunted by bloodhounds, as were other Union men iu that State.” '■‘■Immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." A full history of all these atrocities would fi}l volumes. But why continue the recital ? Sufficient has been recounted in these brief pages to stamp these perfidious rebels as the most cruel and blood-thirsty wretches that ever disgraced mankind. The mind recoils in horror from the contemplation of the barbarities they have practiced upon our citizens and soldiers for no other crime than that of loving their country and their flag. But the civilized world will stand aghast at the fact that the recent Copperhead convention at Chicago was composed of men in full and shameless sympathy with the bloody and brutal tyrants at Richmond, who inspired and commanded the commission of the crimes and atrocilies*herein exposed and held up to the execration of civilization. The platform oi Peace and Disunion there erected will forever stand out in history as the foulest blot upon our escutcheon, and will make our latest posterity to blush with shame and humiliation. This shame must be wiped out as far as possible by the loyal people by burying, in one common political grave, that atrocious platform of an ignominious and degrading peace, and the candidates who stand upon it, illustrating its infamy and its disloyalty. “Down with the traitor and up with the star I” New Book—Entitled, “Sufferings for a Free Government; or, a History of Cho Cruelties and Atrocities of the Rebellion.” This work has been carefully compiled and collated from official documents and other reliable sources, by Thomas E. Wilson, clerk in the Fourth Auditor’s Office, Treasury Department, and embodies a thrilling history of the cruelties, tortures, and savage barbarities inflicted upon Union men, women, children, and Union soldiers in the Rebel States, since the first inauguration of the Rebellion by the Secessionists, who, as a people, lay claim to all the chivalry, refinement, and gallantry of the human race, (to let them tell it;) but whose savage propensities and extreme cruelties have never yet had a parallel in the history of savage warfare, much less in civil Christian strife.—Daily Morning Chronicle, D. C., Sept. 1,1864. Orders may be sent to Thomas L. Wilson, Fourth Auditor’s Office, or to 0. Storrs, Chief Clerk, same office. The Book will contain about 300 pages. Price $1.50. Mr. Thomas L. Wilson has compiled a mass of valuable and interesting information on the subject of rebel barbarities and the suffering and oppression of Union citizens in the insurgent districts. The facts presented ore drawn from authentic sources and worthy of credence. Hon. J. M. EDMUNDS, Commissioner of General Land Office. C. STORRS, Esq., Chief Cleric Fourth Auditor’s Office, Hon. D. P. HOLLOWAY, Commissioner of Patents. Hon. GREEN ADAMS,‘Sixth Auditor of the Treasury. Hon. GEORGE W. McLELLAN, Second, Ass’t Postmaster General. Hon. W. P. DOLE, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. August 29,1864. Printed by McGill 4 Witherow, for the Union Congressional Committee.
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