Harper’s Weekly,
June 7, 1862
ABOUT FINISHED.
GENERAL McCLELLAN telegraphs that the "Fourth Michigan
have about finished the Louisiana Tigers." We fancy we shall have some more dispatches of
this tenor.
These Southern bravoes, who call themselves "Tigers,"
and "Lions," and "Grave-diggers," and
"Yankee-slayers;" who carry black flags, and refuse quarter to
unarmed men; who dig up the corpses of our dead soldiers, and send their bones
home to their lady loves as trophies—these creatures, who are a speaking
illustration of the brutalizing effect of the institutions among which they
have been reared, and whose savage instincts would appall the most ferocious
native of Dahomey or Patagonia—these fellows can never withstand the onset of a
Christian soldiery. They are capable of assassinating a Union man, or of
whipping a black woman to death; but when it comes to standing up in a fair
fight against Northern men, in any thing like equal numbers, they run like
hares. Brutality and manhood can no more coexist in the same individual than
oil and water can mingle.
We are not sorry to hear that the "Louisiana
Tigers" are "about finished." It is about time that some other
of these Southern regiments, which have desolated the South and done their best
to destroy the nation, were "about finished" too. A gentleman from
Tennessee reports that in certain neighborhoods the rebel soldiers have not
only destroyed crops and fences, but have wantonly torn down houses and barns,
burned every thing that would burn, and so thoroughly obliterated every vestige
of improvement from the land, that the wretched owners who are now returning to
their homes, under cover of our flag, experience some difficulty in discovering
whereabouts their houses stood. Others tell still more fearful stories of
outrages—outrages nameless and horrible; of whole districts in which not a
woman or a girl has escaped the fiendish brutality of the Texans and
Louisianians. It is about time, in the name of God and humanity, that the
authors of these atrocities should be "finished."
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