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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Gen. McIntosh. (search)
sk why it is that, with scarcely an exception, the best members of society are the most loyal in their devotion to the South; whilst those who are doubtful are, with scarcely an exception, men who are doubtful in the relations of social life, who are dissolute, or dishonest, or false in their private character, or, if not absolutely vicious, who are weak minded, eccentric, and unstable? Why is it, if this be a "wicked rebellion," that such men as the late Bishop Meade, of Virginia, or Rev. Dr. Atkinson, President of Hampden Sidney, who led his whole college to the field, or the vast number of Baptist and Methodist clergymen who have laid aside for a time the sword spiritual for the sword temporal, or the Roman Catholic Bishop Whalan, of Wheeling, who told the mob that insisted upon hoisting the United States flag on his Cathedral that, before they should do it, they must pass over his dead body, why is it, if this be "a wicked rebellion," that such men are among its warmest and most