The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Alleged Southern outrages.

The elaborate efforts of the Federal Congress to make it appear that the Confederate soldiers, after the battle of Manassas, treated the bodies of the dead with great barbarity are intended no doubt to palliate their own outrages to the living, and to have an excuse in advance for still greater atrocities. This is all of a piece with the scandalous stories that have been fabricated in regard to the cruelty exercised towards Federal prisoners in Richmond. Every one knows that the very reverse is the truth, and that these men have received humane treatment from the first moment they fell into our hands. The memorable sentiment expressed by President Davis, in his address to the people of Richmond on his return from the battle of Manassas, ‘"Never be humble to the haughty, nor haughty to the humble,"’ sounded the key note of the whole deportment of the Southern people to their prisoners during this war. On the other hand, not only our prisoners of war in such filthy prisons as Columbus, but unarmed citizens who have fallen into their hands, have been treated with gross inhumanity, their houses burned, their property destroyed, and their families insulted. What new horrors our enemies have in contemplation, that they are now putting forth fresh fabrications of Southern cruelty, we cannot imagine. But the truth of history will yet be vindicated, and the flagitious hypocrisy and heartlessness of the invaders receive their just reward.