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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], The enemy on the Peninsula. (search)
Gen. Jackson and the Black Flag. The declaration of Gen. Jackson in the beginning of the war in favor of raising the Black Flag, recently mentioned by Governor Letcher in his speech in Danville, so far from detracting from his reputation for humanity, was unquestionably dictated by the conviction that such a course would bring the war to a speedy termination, by striking terror to the foe and compelling the interposition of foreign powers to put a speedy termination to the contest. No man more thoroughly understood the character of this contest as waged by the North, and the character of the people by whom it is waged, than Gen. Jackson. He looked upon it as essentially a John Brown raid, headed by a man who resembled John Brown in everything but courage. If the perpetrators of the John Brown raid deserved death, so did the Black Republican gang who took up their enterprise, almost on the spot where they atoned for it with their lives. If there was any difference in the crimi