The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Secessionists in Alexandria.

The streets of Alexandria, wherever there is a show of business, are occupied by merchants engaged in supplying military stores to sutlers, and selling goods to soldiers. Brig. General Montgomery is the military editor of the town. The General from some cause or other, appears to be exceeding unpopular with some of the Union men, who complain of his levity towards known Secessionists and some go so far as to charge him with sympathising with them in political sentiment. This is, however, a mistake, and originates in prejudice.

There is no use, however, of attempting to disguise the fact that nineteen out of every twenty of the old residents are rebels at heart, and are held only in check by the presence of the military who surround them. Union loving people cannot walk the streets without encountering insult, and these insults come mostly from women in the garb of ladies. There is most unquestionably a fountain of treason at this place which flows into the very Cabinet, camp, and citadel of the rebels. A visit would satisfy the most skeptical of the truth of this assertion. If Gen. Monigomery could succeed in making an example of some of these traitors, it would be highly satisfactory to a large number of true Union-loving men in Alexandria.