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Cairo, Ill.

--This point is said to have been selected by the Black Federalists as the key of their operations on the Mississippi. The Memphis Bulletin, of the 20th inst., foreshadows some resistance:

‘ We conversed, yesterday, with a gentleman who passed Cairo on Thursday, and he assures us that the people of that city are very decidedly against Lincoln's policy. They were about erecting a secession flag there, and the prospect is that they will side with the South in this fratricidal strife. One citizen, in speaking of the report that Lincoln intended sending an army of 10,000 there, said that such an army would not last the Cairoites ten hours!

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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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