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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
d brought to justice. We have some six or seven candidates in the field for the Convention. Our people will vote for the man who will get out of the Union soonest — we long to see the Old Dominion afloat. I was talking to day with a plain old farmer, who does not meddle with politics, about the present state of things, and asked him his position. He replied, by saying he had been in favor of Virginia's seceding, but she had waited so long he doubted whether she could do so now with credit to herself. You are right, Mr. Editor, when you say our present Legislature is far behind the people. --We want action, prompt and immediate — not discussing an outside consideration, and thereby furnishing food for Black Republicanism; and since Gen. Scott has, Esau like, sold his birthright for a "mess of pottage," I do hope the, Legislature will demand of him the sword she honored him with, and give him a money consideration in place thereof, as your correspondent suggests. Scrib