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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Liberal and patriotic. (search)
never have the ring of the true metal. The small shopkeepers are reaping a harvest out of the present state of things, and would make good cavalry, as they are first rate at a charge. The merchants proper are contracting their business, and as they do not replenish their stock, and as soldiers and others are obliged to have articles of necessity, the demand raises the price of the commonest article fifty per cent., and often more, beyond the usual price, and the small venders "make," as Patrick Henry said, "the most of it" You have read Raymond's testimony to the Vandalic conduct of the Hessians at Hampton. If there is a righteous God in Heaven — if "justice and judgment are the habitation of His throne"--if hell be not a fiction and a farce, what will be the punishment of these fiends in the hour of death and in the day of judgment, who have desecrated that ancient church in Hampton, and violating the solemn and sacred repose of the dead, have hauled the tombstones from the fo