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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Ellsworth or search for Ellsworth in all documents.
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Howling over Ellsworth.
The howl of rage and excitement raised through the North over the death of their chief bully of the Zouaves, is second only to the uproar which they raised when they tried to intimidate Virginia from hanging that eminent Ohio saint, the late John Brown. What an exceedingly moderate, modest and rational idea, that they should invade our country, with the most horrid threats against all we hold dear, and that if we raise a weapon in self- defence, it is the most infernal outrage upon these excellent people ever recorded in the annals of mankind!
They expect their men to go to war, and if one of the "Lambs" gets killed, it is an unheard of brutality!
They expect to come on Virginia soil, and profane it with their accursed presence, and not be "welcomed with bloody hands to a hospitable grave." We can tell them that Jackson, who fell at the thresh hold avenging nobly the infamous act of a piratical invader, is but a type of Southern millions, who are ready
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], The man on Horseback (search)
Mr. Jackson, the proprietor of the Marshall House, in Alexandria, Va., who recently shot Ellsworth of New York, and was butchered by the Zouaves, of whom he was Colonel, was the same gentleman who cut down the Lincoln and Hamlin pole, at Occoquan, Prince William County, Va.,during the canvass of last year, and prevented its being hoisted again.
He was a zealous Southern.
Rights man, and would have shot Elisworth if he had known that it would be his last act.