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The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terms of the Dispatch. (search)
r, we have little doubt that the act of Congress will cover property in Virginia amounting to thirty or forty millions of dollars. If the Sequestration fund in the other States at all corresponds with the amount of property covered by the act in Virginia, the total fund levied upon in the South must reach one or two hundred millions of dollars, probably much more. It is said that the news of our Sequestration act has produced a profound sensation at the North. The proclamation of President Davis calling for privateers, struck that people as a clap of thunder from a clear sky. The news of our Sequestration act shocks them like the upheaving of an earthquake. It is all the more alarming to them from the fact, that it was enacted in strict retaliation for the Confiscation Law of the Washington Congress.--That unwise body forgot the old adage cautioning the dwellers in glass houses against the imprudence of throwing stones. Not only was the Confiscation Law passed by the Northern
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], President Davis, (search)
President Davis, we are informed, was in his office yesterday, for the first time since his recent attack of illness. Vice-President Stephens, whom we saw in the street, seemed to be enjoying unusual health.