IOS APPENDIX. contemptuous defiance: and very prudently modified his pretensions wiili no unnecessary delay. "Whatever “ censorship” exists at all in the South is a censorship of passion and not of power. Note E.—1’ngc 63. RESPECT FOR SOUTHERN PROPERTY. It is equally astonishing and unfortunate that the policy of forbearance in respect to the property and the persons of noncombatants in Virginia should ever have been the subject of unfavorable discussion in Congress. Aside from the abstract question involved, and from the moral influence of our practice in this particular upon the opinion of the world, it was only necessary to read the Richmond papers to perceive how anxiously the southern leaders desired to see us concede that disgraceful license of plunder and cruelty to the whole army which certain general officers of the army of the Potomac are alleged to have put to profit, until the practice was prevented by peremptory orders from the General-in-Chief. Confederate officers, who served in Western Virginia, at the beginning of the war. testified strongly, in my hearing, to the 1: bad effect'’ upon their men of General McClellan's forbearance and kindness towards the prisoners whom he paroled after the defeat of General Garnett. livery instance of pillage which occurred during the subsequent invasions in Virginia was sedulously magnified and published throughout the South. The result of all this was two-fold; it produced upon the soldiers in the field precisely the effect which Lord Dunmore aimed at in the early days of the Revolution, when he made the royal troops believe that they would Go scalped if they fell alive into the hands of the “shirtmen: and it so influenced the passions of the >eople against the northern “ Hessians ” as cruelly to increase the sufferings of onr prisoners. I ha\^Hen tho soldiers of the guard forced to protect prisoners in Richmond
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