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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], "On to Washington." (search)
s, who are always finding fault with newspapers, is, in most of the States, commendably cautions and reticent,) cannot, as a faithful exponent of the popular sentiment, evince much desire for the possession of Washington, on its own account, that once famous capital having become the meanest and filthiest hole of moral, political, and physical pollution in the whole Yankee land. Unless Gen. Lee can take with him chloride of lime, tar, and other disinfectants in sufficient quantity to purify Sodom and Gomorrah, he would be exposing his noble army to all sorts of pestilences, of both body and soul, to quarter them in Washington.--That city has been for two years and more the roosting place of all the owls, buzzards, and unclean birds and beasts of the Black Republican and Abolition party; the common sewer in which has been disgorged the foul and fetid stream of all that is vile and pestilential in Yankee passions and polities. The stench of it would be enough to annihilate the finest