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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Philadelphia. (search)
Major Robt. Anderson has made it a point at every stopping place at the North to complain of our "inhuman treatment" in firing on Sumter after the barracks were enveloped in flames. Did anybody prevent him pulling down his dirty stripes? And why is it that he has not told "the Northern people" that he had a 10-inch Columbiad planted on the parade ground at Fort Sumter, at an elevation sufficient to enable him to throw a 10-inch shell into the crowd of unarmed citizens and helpless women, whom he knew full well would congregate in Whits Point Garden at the firing of the first gaunt, This is not a rumor, the gun has been seen, the elevation and direction have been noticed, and by his own acknowledgment, and that of his officers, the guns in exposed places could not be worked without the certainly of destruction; so our mothers, wives and sisters have not been slaughtered, because our guns kept him in his casemates. This is the brave man who was supplied with fresh meat, vegetable