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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Gen. Floyd's command. (search)
in form, with a fundamental condition that all children born after the 4th of July shall be free. In regard to Mr. Sumner's amendment, he said that most of the slaves now remaining in Western Virginia are old family slaves, and gradual emancipation would be better for the interests of the State. The bill in effect proposes the admission of a new free State. The God of Nature ordained that Western Virginia should be a free State, and there was probably not eight thousand slaver there to-day. Really there was not involuntary servitude there, for from the position in regard to Ohio and Pennsylvania it is impossible to keep slaves there unless they are willing to stay. He protested earnestly against the addition of new counties, as made by the bill as reported by the committee, thus including counties in the Valley, which have no social or friendly relations with the people of Northern Virginia--counties which are divided by a range of mountains as well as by feeling and interests.
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
uit of Gen. Banks, drove him to Winchester, defeated him there, pursued him a distance of seventy or eighty miles up to the Potomac; then retired, and during his retreat defeated Fremont and Shields; then swept over the Blue Ridge and across Eastern Virginia to the Chickahominy and attacked the right wing of our main army ten days ago — with what success is known to our readers — having in this space of time fought four battles at distant points, and traversed a distance of four or five hundred kely he will try. We believe, moreover, that our troops now at Washington and the points named are fully prepared to resist such a movement. At least we hope so. And we also hope that our troops now in the Shenandoah Valley and elsewhere in Eastern Virginia, will be disposed of so as to effectually prevent any other northward movements of this rebel, if he be alive, or of his ghost, if he be dead. A day of excitement in New York. [From the New York Tribune, July 4.] Yesterday was