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Show 222 ROEBUCK.'' crmnent 'vhich sho,vea itself benignant in the con. duct of it officer. Perhn.p~, if a ~itnil:n· policy had ~cen pnr~uccl everywhere d nring the ,var, the prediction of Doctor Fairf:.1x that t he South ·would not 1naintain the strngglc n1ore than two years, n1io·ht have been fnlfi1lccl .::> Bnt the conduct of Colonel Tremaine 'VaR censured by I~icntcnn.nt-Colonel W cscl, and son1c others of the ~on1n1n.ncl . The~ chafed under th? restrn.ints of tli. ciphne. Th01r pn.s Ions d01nanded hccncc. l\lr. Palmee nJ 'O, and his son, 'vere disappointed and oifended. An intrigue 'vas hatched for the removal of Colonel :rrernainc fron1 the cornn1and. lie ,vas accused of Inertness, of cruelty to his 1ncn, of indulgence to r~bcl '. It \Vas i~1sinuated t.hat he felt a critninal gratitude for the loudness 'vluch he had received as a w?nnc1ed l)li oncr. It ·was observed that he dined 'vlth a 1~otct1 rebel, and listened on Sunday to a scr- 111011 dchverecl Ly an old preacher 'vho 'vas known to 8Y1npathizc 'vith his fellow-citizc~s in their trials. It '\Vas alleged that JJf 'vould neither force nor entice servants away f1~11 their 1na. tors. In fine, it was concl u led that he sy1npathizcd 'vith the rebellion. At.lcngth this intrigue 'vas successful. Colonel Trelnatnc 'va~ ordered to \Va hington to answer for his conduct and "TlTe,. ] · d ' ._ n .-,c , promote to the rank of colonel, 'vas left in con11 n ,., d · 1 1 . ,LJl , 'VLt 1 n1np e ,anthonty to scouro·e t.he SI)iri t of sc,c r..t..:o.- ,·.· w n f'. 1 ... , t 0 1n t1e county. Then com-lncnced a ne\v ad1uinistration of a di(l'erent order. • HOE 13UUK . 2:?3 CIIAP'fT£R XX. TnE savage nn<l futile policy of r eaucin o- the Sonth h to snhn1i .·~ i on l>y d estroying p rovi. ions arHl imple-ments of hn.'b:tn<.l ry, and Ly con vc rting the Janel in to a barren 'vasto, ha(lnot yet been fonnally avowed by l1igh anthority. It wa .. executed in particular places 'vith n1orc or leR~ f(.\rocity, aeeon1 iug to the temper of eneh cotnlU:tlldc r. Those ' vho 'verc prone to that n1ode of ·warf;u·c deri vc<l su flieient encouragement from the onlers exelu<linb· 1nc<.lieinc fro1n the South, and other acts of the govcnuncnt, <1c11ying to tlto Southern p oplc tho.·c ri g·ht' of httnlanity 1\'hieh arc eon ceded to e nemies hy the nsnge:) of civil izecl wari: wc. Such atrocities rec i ved uo countenance from Colonel TrCinaine, btlt t hey sui Led tho temperam n t of his successor. Dnring the first two years of the 'v:1r, d i.-cil>lino in the vast nnnies of the North 'vas ]c s perfect than it nftcrwa.nl· b ocn1nc. Sma1l boc1ie. , dctachc<.l fron1 the 1nain anuics, oon beca1uc very lisorderly and lawlosR, unlcs. con trolled by a finn a1Hl j tH.licious ofiicer. In a Rhort t i nlc, the fo rce untler Colonel vVe. e1 bccmnc little LcLt r than a Jiccntjou::; r:lbble. At fin.;t tlte baser . ort of n1en, sweepings of street.·, brawlers and bruison3 at ho1nc, became d runk n, thievish :tiHl rioton.'. Their impunity, and the contagion of vice, corrnpte<l others. l\I:tny men, not thoroughly vicion~, 3·eqnirc the ctu·b of n~ilitary discipline 'vhen they aro |