Show FEDERAL retaliation the administration organ at washington Was Lington the national republican af of the lit dinst announces to the country the world and the rest treat of mankind that president lincoln bad authorized the issuing of an order that henceforth it would be the policy and inton of the government to retaliate in kind for every case of ill treatment of our cur of ficera and men black or white by the reidel rebel authentic ties by hangl bangi hanging fig for hanging for shooting and for imprisonment etc tic pursuant to tho the letter antl ami spirit of hia this order in every instance where it ii is known that a blaek black man in inthe the military kry ary bervice service of the government of the united states is taken and ana sold into slavery the federal military authorities will be instructed to select a confederate 1 prisoner and add coccie confine him to hard bard labor in some prison there to cantil the black man is libera liberated ted teJ it is further soi zol sole eole emny inny declared in this thi talla talia tive that tile the govern the right and possessing the powerful ill lil exact and to the ietter letter that abat h federal flag the federal uri url ferny ferni us ar ard hall shall be respected i tah tab thua it I 1 bt onah cotta otah apparent in the pro progreso gresa of national digit aoa we kavi havi elrey reached reacted that declivity which purges urges pl tho the ta nation into tb lle lie fearful of isanan rating fhe the law latr af faden lanen I 1 it aie lie care not dot haze to db ua Z wito wiro fi blurb yoked J by barbarous act set or t f fe wards J prisoners non combatants er helpless women and children incompatible with civilized warfare an introduction of the lex tali tale omu onu the association of the term ciril civil w ath th any species of whether singly by the midnight assassins knife or by the ten thousand slain in magnificent b displays of the pemp pomp and circum of war we can only regard b as at least a gross misnomer an unwarrantable abuse of plain english the very existence et of war implies if not necessitates all that is atrocious horrid barbarous and inhuman whatever to the coia COB arary may have been bemb the ostensible restraints bet set up by national agreement for the plausible amelioration of its horrors herr berr ors if rapine unprotected murder and divagation hav have not marked the pathway of the conqueror then has baa ha he not fulfilled the instincts that impelled the hoar bile blie invasion OT or lc le has been shorn of the power to inflict the punish hunish ment la in reserve for er a presumptive insolent and conquered foe toe to retaliate for the execution of two C confederate fed fei erate spies apprehended in Rosecrans rebe Rese crans 2 department part ment early iu ha the a ummer summer the co confederates areder ordered the execution of two prisoners of oti war caits sawyer and flynn As oon soon as s the washington authorities became cog cognizant nizan t of this z act ct confederate prisoners among i them cen gen IV H T r lee son of the renowned gen R E lee were placed in confinement with orders from gen halleck that as soon as s official or authentic in information informant format ia on hall shail have bare been received of the execution of 1 yer and myan nyan by tha the th conrede confederates rates the younger lee and other prisoners designated I 1 are to be at once executed I 1 though these thesa are but solitary instances and ina at a ume time wien ht the ot at axman life ute is 13 most moat precarious they will serve to show the animus of the war norean korean theoe these coo cool I 1 blooded en samples gamiles of 0 retaliatory vengeance however much demanded by popular clamor or christian retributive autive justice decide the tb great pending issue 1 issue or bring about a speedy termination of the conflict they can but relent esaly essly esely add to the atrocities a of a fratrick dal war which as yet is fraught with no bright promise of hope to the cause of true freedom freedora or humanity |