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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Spirit of the war. (search)
, of Col. Whittiesy's regiment, were ordered to march, word having been received that Captain Sanders, the notorious rebel of Eagle Creek, was at New Liberty, a village about eighteen miles from Warsaw, where he was conducting himself with his usual violence and virulence toward the few whom he suspected of harboring Union sentiments in that village. New Liberty is in Owen county, and is the place where a big Secession barbecue was held some time since, and to which Humphrey Marshall and Breckinridge were invited. The former was present. Col. Whittiesey had information, also, that there were a number of State arms at New Liberty in the hands of Secessionists. Hence he ordered a sufficient body of men upon the duty, to overcome any opposition they might encounter. Captains Hyatt and Fry arrived at the village that night, and quietly took military possession, stationing guards at all the public houses and establishing patrols in the streets. The consequence was, when the inhabi
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The surrender of Mason and Slidell the manner of its publication. (search)
possession a letter envelope of one of those associations, in which the Southern President is represented as hanging from a gallows, guarded by a squad of blackguard Zouaves, and a letter breathing a ferocity and vengeance which had their inspirations in any source but the merciful and forgiving genius of Christianity. Rev. Dr. Tyng's address in which he declared that the thieves and cut throats of Wilson's regiment might have their souls saved by their bloody raid into the South, and Dr. Breckinridge's savage war-whoop for the blood of women and children were fine illustrations of Mr. Seward's "Christian people." The "humanity" is about on a par with the "Christianity" of the North. We wonder that even Seward himself did not blush to attribute to his countrymen such a characteristic. The history of modern civilization does not present a picture of such deliberate barbarity and brutality as this Northern war upon the South. The scenes in the North by which it was preceded, ma