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The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rong — to say to the North, in the language of Canute to the waters of the great deep, "Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther." Tell them that the statu quo must be preserved as it is — that not another man must be sent to Fortress Monroe, Harper's Ferry, or to the fort on the Potomac. Alluding to a scurrilous attack upon him in the N. Y. Times, where he was branded as a traitor, he said he had engaged in no political man ring with any party. The only communication he had received from Soutght to be done for the protection of Virginia. There was, it is true, a formidable battery of words; and if we could believe all we hear, there were men not a hundred miles from Richmond who could eat half a dozen Yankees for breakfast, take Harper's Ferry and Fortress Monroe during the same day, and bring back the keys of those positions by supper time. He thought the men who talked the loudest would be found wanting in the hour of danger. He hoped the resolution would meet with no oppositio