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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Thomas A. R. Nelson. (search)
y half way ground. He that is not for us in his war of plunder of our property. (as legalized by the act of confiscation) of invasion of our homes and destruction of our dearest rights, is against us. We can no longer afford the luxury of nourishing in our midst vile conspirators, who would welcome the assassin and invader upon our soil, and assist him in driving the knife to our bosoms; and who would gladly guide the enemy's force through the mountain passes, as Virginia tories dia at Rich Mountain, to fall upon our brave volunteers and murder them. Neither can we permit men to leave our State and sit in high council at Washington upon our rights with those who send handcuffs with their army to manacle the proud freemen of the South, to confiscate our estates and doom us to a felons death. Not Mr Nelson, and all like him, would consult their own safety by a graceful acquiescence in the will of the people. Otherwise, he consuming indignation of a people now thoroughly aroused wil