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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], What is to be done with the prisoners? (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], T. Butler King and Southern Experts. (search)
Peace papers
--The Journal of Commerce says that the Day Book's list of Peace papers, with its own additions, makes no less than one hundred and fifty-two journals in the North opposed to the war. It is all folly for the Republican papers to insist that this is not evidence of public opinion.
These journals have readers and subscribers that approve of their sentiments, and their number in the aggregate would make a larger army than Lincoln will ever get together.--New York Day Book.
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The blockade. (search)
The blockade.
The Lincoln Government will not be permitted to say what articles shall and what shall not be exempted from the operation of the blockade which it has established.
They have discovered, it seems, that the blockade is injuring themselves more than us, and are endeavoring to lighten the burthens of the war to the Western farmers, by permitting them to bring their productions, which they cannot sell and which bid fair to rot on their hands into competition with those of our own agriculturists.
They are cunningly seeking to draw the money from the South to enable them to carry on the war against her. We take it for granted that the Southern Government and people will at once put a veto on that proceeding.
We have furnished the North already, in times that have gone by, the means which they are now using for our subjugation, and it can scarcely be expected that in an actual state of war, we shall permit them to levy the ways and means for our extermination from our o
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The blockade. (search)
Promotion.
--Colonel Pickett, of Tennessee, has been promoted to the position of Adjutant General, in the regular Confederate service, of the division commanded by General Lee, now operating in Northwestern Virginia. Col. Pickett, it will be remembered, after a brilliant campaign last summer through the Northern States, advocating the election of Bell, was one of the first, after the election of Lincoln, to declare in favor of immediate secession, sustaining his position in the Tennessee Legislature by a series of arguments which added to his reputation as one among the most gifted of Tennessee's gifted young statement.
Joined to his native talents, Col. Pickett has had experience also as a military commander, and will make an accomplished officer.