Show Barbad tim of ue the IWU th he escen I 1 of ahk southern 3 retire n GK thoaas Tho was recently sent out a fa aig tigue tig t ue ie P party arty to the field of u ga to inter or rather re inter the union dead who fell in the fight 0 last wh abst of them had been buried ly air cov troops after the battle of missionary ridge but very lightly 0 and portions of the bodies were in it a majority of bf cases found protruding aiding above the ground the detail was accompanied by if mr r read the agent of the sanitary commission who occupied himself by taking such notes note 8 of the bodies as might aid their friends in discovering their graves or procuring their transmission tram to their homes if desired ile he lias has recently sent in it a report of his labors to dr newberry the of tile the hi the west 9 and in fil it he states that they oni only y in in one instance discovered indications that any of our dead had been buried by tho the rebels and in this tin s the bodies were ivere au all found shot through the I 1 head and their legs or arni tied or strapped together aal affording 0 all but conclusive proof that they ii had ad been massacred after capture and surrender incidents of this kind have frequently it been reported before but never so far as we we remember in so go authentic anthen tic a shape as this we mention this now not for fm the purpose of urging uvon upon tile the government the propriety and duty of retaliation but for placing 0 on record once more an illustration ll 11 oi of the character of 0 the enemy with which we have to deal tile the administration ha has ion long had in its possession satisfactory f a c wry evidence of the commission ot of the aaro atro atrocities cities by the rebels and it has repeatedly threatened bretal retal I 1 i aaion but so I 1 far ar has lie never ver inflicted it we have always thought and think still that some effort ought might to have been made to inflict punishment at least oh n the guilty or presumably guil ty W beg wa W a that for instance ewry eoj a prisoner taken from the gang which mi iba fiss assaulted Axil td t d fortt ill av ai kh C to have had short shrift sli riff and that 11 tt it is neither just nor expedient nor humane to ask th the berro enero troops and their white officers to incur greater reater risks than lall fall to the lot of tile the white soldiers as long ay as wp ive have it in our power to protect them from them but the propriety of retaliating by taking life for life is in a peculiar peculia i degree anak master er for the discretion of the executive and upon which anything 9 like li kempress key P press dessure ure from froin popular clamor would be indecent as well as unwise when massacres are committed by bv one side or the other in civil par wait there herc are many tings things to bet alcen into aho account beside the desirableness of punishing ig tile the guilty guilky and notably the effect of a resort to the lex lionis a on our own character and on the future conduct I 1 of taw war var and these are points on which the public is not likely likel Y to possess the means of deciding correctly in as full fall a de degree 9 ree as the government ern ment but in any events event we think it is un unquestionably question ably the duty either of congress or the to collect and put on record and place before the world in an official form a full true and particular account of each atrocity committed by the rebels at present ent a great fuss is made about them in the newspapers as they occur and perhaps one or two allusions are made to them in hi coridi congress ess ir vengeance z is thre f T ned boi thero there the n matter jatter I 1 ends this ought might not to be we have boon botn suffering frering abroad ever since the war began from this indifference to our own n the rebel agents have managed very successfully to bold us u up to the world as monsters of cruelty and wickedness and themselves xi the very pink of ebinal chivalry ry and va it ought to irate been lip bmw ament along to dissipate these illusions illusion q by plain phaik official statements of effaces facts this is universally lf the ille pi practice a C tic e wf f olt oilier her countries during the italian war ivar the barbari barbarities ties of the austrians Aust rians in ill pied finont were made tile the subject of a diplomatic plo matic circular by count cavour and a similar appeal to public opinion has been recently made by the danish minister kinister in cal calking ling jing 0 fatte attention i tu to the file cruelties cruel ties and executions of marshal in alsen there are arc many obvious reasons why we should be much more zealous than they in ill exposing in the character of our enemy N r Y tivies times |