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The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Talking and fighting. (search)
Talking and fighting.
--Thomas Francis Meagher, in a letter to a friend in Hartford; declining an invitation to that city, says that he is going to the war, that "talking is over fight is the word." and declares that the hope, of the oppressed of all nations depend upon preserving the integrity of the United States and putting down this rebellion.
Mr. Thos. F. Meagher was a rebel in his own country against a Government which exercised no such lawless despotism as that of Abraham Linco ace of the earth.
The bone and muscle and brate force that were expected to crush Southern men like so many egg shells cowered beneath the fiery blood and proud spirit of a patriotic people.
There is one allusion, however, in Mr. Meagher's Hartford letter which discloses one of the main springs that have been brought to act upon the foreign population of the North.
It is not only the alternative between enlistment and starvation, but the idea, artfully and actively propagated, that if the