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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
swindle a few doors below Kirkwood's. He sells anything he's got for a dollar — splendid mosaic ear-rings, a set of the heaviest pure silver spoons, and the like of that. To-day, all is dark and dreary again. The poor creatures are forced back to their needles and their novels. Mr. Ro. E. Scott's long-delayed letter will appear in the Alexandria Gazette of Monday next. If every Virginian were as true to the honor of his State as the gentleman just named, and if all of us will back Gov. Letcher in his plucky response to the coercive resolutions of the Black Republican Legislature of New York. I warrant the Old Dominion with emerge gloriously from the cloud of her present obscure and doubtful position. Owing to the horrid weather, and the certainty that Congress can do nothing new, I have not been to the Capitol for some days, and can I tell how Mr. Pryor's peace proposition are getting along. From the tone of yesterday's Tribune, I should say there was no hope of any comp
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Irish and coercion. (search)
.public sentiment West of the Mountains. Greenbrier Co., Va., Jan. 16, 1861. Persons here are glad to see that the Dispatch denies a want of loyalty to the State west of the Blue Ridge. Public sentiment in this county has changed much in the last few weeks. We have some violent secessionists, who land the brave and manly course of South Carolina. Still, the majority say we must now secede, though we abhor the idea of following South Carolina. Some of the leaders who followed Governor Letcher's theory now yield a mournful acquiescence, adding that it galls them to be drawn into civil war by a ranting little State. But the secessionists are fast making converts. In case of civil war I have no doubt that Greenbrier will furnish some as brave and loyal troops as ever marched to repel an invader. There are several volunteer companies in the county. Of the three newspapers in Lewisburg, one urges secession, a second opposes coercion, and the third deprecates civil war; or