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The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Yankee Editor Condemns the Outrages committed by Lincoln troops. (search)
way. General Butler, of course, disapproves all this — but that is not enough. He should have issued a proclamation, as soon as he arrived, inviting the citizens to remain at home, and assuring them of the perfect protection of their lives and property. And then every violation of private rights — every instance of theft or plunder — should have been punished with a rigor which would have effectually prevented a repetition of the act — It some officer of the regular army — such a man as General Wool, for example — had been here, we should have had none of these disgraces. If the citizens had remained at home, their property would have been much safer. But they were afraid to do so, and not without reason. One of our Colonels one night arrested and brought into the fort, a whole family — including an old lady and three or four small children, on the charge that they were displaying signal-lights for the rebels.--It turned out that they kept a light burning on account of a si