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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative | 85 | 25 | Browse | Search |
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 79 | 79 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 52 | 16 | Browse | Search |
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant | 52 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 41 | 25 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 39 | 27 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 34 | 10 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 32 | 18 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 32 | 10 | Browse | Search |
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An Unpatrolled atrocity contemplated by Lincoln.
The spy, Webster, who was executed near this city a few weeks ago, was tried by a court- martial, and convicted upon the clearest testimony.
According to the laws of war, as understood and acte on earth, his sentence was just, and he but suffered the penalty due to his crime.
We learn from the Enquirer that Lincoln has determined to retaliate by hanging Mr. Smithson, of Washington, a banker in high repute, who has not even been charg a crime, and almost impossible to believe that it is seriously designed to perpetrate it. And yet we have seen enough of Lincoln, and the foul brood that surround him, to feel assured that he would stop short of no atrocity less horrible than this, which we conceive to be the most horrible of all.
It is easy to understand what Lincoln expects to gain by the contemplated crime.
He hopes to secure immunity for spies to come and go, into and from our lines without moderation.
He will be de