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It was, no doubt, the profound policy of Lincoln and his faction to throw the operatives of the North out of employ, to secure the recruits for the army of coercion.
Starvation produces a certain sort of valor, and a hungry belly may stimulate patriotism to a kind of courage which, on a good feed, will risk the encounter with a bullet.
It appears that the Lincoln recruits from Massachusetts, at .Baltimore, were in large proportion cobblers.
The Revolution seems to have affected their craft more than any other, according to some of the accounts; their vocation gave them admirable facilities in the fight, especially in running; they used their footing expeditiously, and took a free flight with their soles (souls)--not one of them apparently being anxious, under the fire of Baltimore brickbats, to see his last.--Charleston Mercury, May 8.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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