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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
rnal of Commerce corrects the exaggerations which have been afloat in that city about the vast number of contrabands who have fled for refuge to the invaders at Port Royal. The Journal has seen several gentlemen who have lately returned from Port Royal to New York, and who state that the whole number of negroes who are at work foPort Royal to New York, and who state that the whole number of negroes who are at work for the Federals does not exceed a hundred and fifty, and that not more than three hundred, including those at work, have visited the island from curiosity and purposes of traffic. The great body of the servants, according to the confession of these gentlemen, remain faithful to their masters, and some of the Northern abolitionists who went to Port Royal are said to have changed their opinions a good deal about slavery after personal examination. Was ever a greater humbug than this vast expedition, got up in such secrecy and mystery, and which has only caught a hundred and fifty negroes, and demonstrated that the planters are ready to burn their cotton rat
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
So much for the accuracy of the information which is sometimes furnished to newspaper correspondents here on the spot. Ridiculous boast. The Missouri Republican makes the following ridiculous and unwarranted boast, which shows how the people of the North are imposed upon: The National flag now floated over the soil of every seceded State except Alabama and Arkansas. In Virginia it floats over one-third of the State; in North Carolina, at Hatteras Inlet; in South Carolina, at Port Royal and a half-dozen neighboring islands; in Georgia, on Tybee Island; in Florida, at Key West, Santa Rosa Island, and other points; in Mississippi, at Ship Island; in Louisiana, at Chandelier Island; Texas, at El Paso; and in Tennessee, at Bristol, Elizabethtown, and other points in the eastern part of the State. "how are the Mighty fallen." Old Scott's life has been equal to Cardinal Woolsey's. The Baltimore American attests the fact in the following paragraph: Early on Sunday