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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Railroad Accident. (search)
Governor Hicks.
If it be true, as reported, that Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, has acceded to the requisition of Lincoln for troops from that State to invade his sister States of the South, he will have the honor of inaugurating a civil war between the people of his own State.
There are plenty of brave, true-hearted men in Maryland who will give Gov. Hicks enough to do at home, without sending his bloodhounds to hunt down a kindred people.
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A man ground to death. (search)
A Blast from the Union Trumpet.
The Lynchburg Virginian, which has hitherto battled manfully for the cause of the Union, thus responds to Lincoln's Proclamation:
"But the last feather which breaks the camel's back, has been applied.
Not only have Federal troops been sent upon a mission of war, but the man who, above all others, held the destinies of this great nation in his hands, and could, by a word, have restored peace, has drawn the sword 'They that take the sword shall perish with the sword.' is the strong language of holy writ.
Let there be a literal fulfillment of the prophecy in this instance, so that the wretch who preferred violence to persuasion may be the first victim of his foul ambition.
Let him at least be driven from the soil he pollutes, which never yet cherished such a reptile.
Perfidy; aye, double distilled treachery to the true and loyal men of the South, have done their worst; and from henceforth nothing but execrations, deep, bitter and enduring,
Resignation of Maj. Hutter.
--Maj. Geo. C. Hutter, paymaster in the late U. S. Army, has resigned his commission.
This is a praiseworthy act in Maj. Hutter.
He is a true Virginian, and, like all true Southern men, can never consent to hold office under such a traitor and despot as Abraham Lincoln. --Lynchburg Repub.
Hon. John S. Pendleton.
--At a large gathering of the citizens of Culpeper, on Monday last, Mr. John S. Pendleton, heretofore one of the most conservative of the Union party, offered and supported resolutions regarding the response of Lincoln to the Virginia Committee as a declaration of war, which, together with the draft for soldiers, demands her immediate withdrawal from the Union.
From Georgia. Augusta, April 17.
--Very little doing in cotton in the Southern markets.
Little offering.
Holders demand an advance.
Lincoln's Proclamation is condemned and ridiculed, and many consider the offers of Northern volunteers mere gasconade; but hundreds of battalions and regiments of volunteers are quietly forming in the South--many secretly — to meet the Northern volunteers in case they can be found.
An unparalleled war spirit is aroused in the South.
Men and means are freely and lavishly offered.
It is believed impossible to subdue it short of a grand national Waterloo conflict.
Augusta county in the field.
The Staunton Spectator, the Union organ of Union county, commenting on Lincoln's nation, says: "There is but one sentiment every man is ready to take up arms!"
Kentucky true to the South. Louisville, April 17.
--A large and enthusiastic meeting was held here last night in opposition to Lincoln's war policy.
Resolutions were unanimously passed that Kentucky will not permit the marching of troops against the Southern Confederacy, but will share the latter's destiny if war comes.
A similar meeting was held at Paducah.