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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
Very Cunning. The New York Herald is out of patience with the abolitionists in the Yankee Congress for passing the confiscation bill with such hot haste. Passed amidst the echo of Jackson's guns on the Upper Potomac, that paper can think of nothing better to compare it to than the fiddling of Nero while Rome was burning. The discussion of this and similar bills, it says, and the foolish proclamations of the Yankee Generals, have revived the sinking cause of the rebels, and brought them back in triumph to the vicinity of Washington. These things have been worth two hundred thousand men to their cause. But for them the rebellion would long since have died a natural death, and no more than fifty thousand men would have been needed to prevent it from showing any further signs of life. Yet the Herald is far from disapproving of the acts themselves. It is upon the question of time that it takes issue with Sumner and Wilson. "Let the rebels," says the Herald, "be first subdu