The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Catholics and the crisis.

--The New York Freeman's Journal contends that ‘"Catholics have done nothing to bring on this war,"’ and urges them to speak out and call once more for counsels of peace. The Journal, alluding to the New York Tribune's exhortation to have men to make a dash at the enemy in Virginia, Maryland, etc., without waiting for orders, thus pays its respects to that paper:

‘"If this pestilent war is to degenerate into a barbarous raid on women, children, and defenseless villages, there will be two sides to the accursed contest. There is in Pennsylvania, Chambersburg, Mercersburg, Gettysburg, Waynesburg, etc., etc., a good deal more accessible, from the border, than any town we know of in Virginia or Maryland.--Could any but a New Englander, a non-resistant, a bran-bread eater, and a lackey Bloomer-women have invited so infamous a paragraph? We decline measuring words of denunciation in stigmatizing its cowardly atrocity."’