te of Captain Young,
you confess that all better resources are at an end.

You are welcome to all the relief that that certificate is
calculated to give you. Does he say that our soldiers were not
inhumanly treated? No. Does he say that he was in a position to
see in case they had been mistreated? No. He simply says that "he
saw no ill-treatment of their wounded." If he was in a position
to see and know what took place, it was easy for him to say so.

I yesterday sent to Major-General Forrest a copy of the report of
the Congressional Investigating Committee, and I hope it may fall
into your hands. You will find there the record of inhuman
atrocities, to find a parallel for which you will search the page
of history in vain. Men--white men and black men--were crucified
and burned; others were hunted by bloodhounds; while others, in
their anguish, were made the sport of men more cruel than the
dogs by which they were hunted.

I have also sent to my government copies of General Forrest's
reports, together with the certificate of Captain Young.

The record in the case is plainly made up, and I leave it. You
justify and approve it, and appeal to history for precedents.

As I have said, history furnishes no parallel. True, there are
instances where, after a long and protracted resistance,
resulting in heavy loss to the assailing party, the garrison has
been put to the sword, but I know of no such instance that did
not bring dishonor upon the commander that ordered or suffered
it.

There is no Englishman that would not gladly forget Badajos, nor
a Frenchman that exults when Jaffa or the Caves of Dahra and
Shelas are spoken of. The massacre of Glencoe, which the world
has read of with horror, for nearly two hundred years, pales into
insignificance before the truthful recital of Fort Pillow.

The desperate defence of the Alamo was the excuse for the
slaughter of its brave survivors after its surrender, yet that
act was received with just execration, and we are told by the
historian that it led more than anything else to the independence
of Texas.

At the battle of San Jacinto the Texans rushed into action with
the war-cry, "Remember the Alamo," and carried all before them.

You will seek in vain for consultation in history, pursue th