The Richmond Examiner writes one of those polished and moderate
articles for which the Confederacy has received so much credit in this country on the most questionable authority, on the subject of two Federal Generals made prisoners in the battle of the Wilderness,—Gensrala Shaler and Seymour. General Shaler, says the Examiner after some violent abuse, at least held his tongue, but General Seymour expressed his wish that, in case Lee should defeat Grant, he might go North and burn Washington, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, after which he thought the North's mettle would be roused to its true temper. For this expression of vehement partizan feeling by the captive, the Richmond Examiner can find no language too foul. "We find it hard to understand, first, why. the man was not bucked and
gagged' by the guard, and secondly, why he was not hooted alsd pelted by the populace." Confederate citizens, it observes, witka„ violent expressions of rage, have been heard to compliment "the N. miscreant's pluck." The scene "is the acme of absurd impro- priety. The guard who permitted it deserves punishment, and if such speeches are to become permanent institutions, we do not see the use of buck and gag." We fear the "buck and gag" will be the more permanent institutions of the two, so long at least as the Confederate press is what it is.
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