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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Yankee enterprise (search)
Yankee enterprise --A Cheap Bargain.--A short time since we called attention to an offer made to Government by the New England fishermen of the services of themselves and vessels against the Southern privateers. That offer was declined by Secretary Welles. We understand that the same patriotic and enterprising class of men have another proposal to make of a still more advantageous character, but are deterred from sending it in to the Navy Department from a repugnance to encounter a second refusal. They are ready, it is stated, to enter into a contract with the Government to sweep the ocean of privateers and to close all the inlets of the Southern coast for a million of dollars — they defraying all their own expenses. The country would save many millions by this arrangement. We should like to hear the objections to its acceptance.--N. Y.Herald.