The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Proposed change of the Confederate flag.

‘ It has been said that the Confederate flag is to be changed. Judge Porter, of Alabama, one of the best men in the South, proposes that we should adopt, in lieu of the present flag, which, he says, ‘"borrows too much from the North, and is associated with stripes,"’ the beautiful flag raised by that lover of freedom, Kosciusko, in his native Poland, after his return from fighting for freedom with Washington. It is a plain, blue field, with the white eagle. There is no other flag like it now in use. Russia extinguished that splendid blue flag, and it would be very appropriate for the South. It would be easily distinguished. The only difficulty we can see in the way of adopting such a flag is that it could not be easily made where there were no artists to paint on the flag the white eagle. If the lone star in the centre were substituted for the eagle it would, in our opinion, be more acceptable.

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