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The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
usillanimous of men, unless Bennety, of the Herald, be an exception; and Webb is more contemptible than both, because he professes to be a fighting man, and ran away from Washington at the sight of Duff Green's pistol.--New York is the greatest generator of gas on the continent. It sent a fleet to attack Charleston, but the fleet dared not land. It caused the telegraph throughout the land to resound with the news that Stuart, the dry goods man, had given a million of dollars to the war, Wm. B. Astor four millions, &c., &c. It now turns out that the grand total of the immense sums poured forth by Lincoln's millionaires for the support of the invasion, is $87,790. Forced loans will have to come, and the Northern financiers bleed at every vein and artery, before the invasion will be fairly begun. It will be a longer war than the Revolution, a war for which there was no such provocation as that which the South has received from the North, and in which our people were distracted by divis