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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The justice and Mercy of Butler's rule in Eastern North Carolina. (search)
The justice and Mercy of Butler's rule in Eastern North Carolina. --The 18th inst., was the day in Eastern North Carolina for the inhabitants to "take the oath" or leave their homes. A letter to the Wilmington Journal from Hamilton, N. C., says: Hundreds of the most disloyal have already taken it, and in many instances volunteered; hired, no doubt, by the seven hundred dollars bounty offered by the Federal Government. The situation of the people of Eastern Carolina and Virginia is really heart rending. Men of all ages and classes may be seen going from one to another shedding tears like whipped children, at the gloomy prospect ahead of them. Near the town of Plymouth they have fixed a place for the people to go and take the oath. They have stretched a huge chain across the road, where all have to go and swear to support Abe in his nigger proclamations, or go to prison. After they take the oath they are allowed to go into town and barter produce for Yankee notions; th