The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Address from a South Carolina (?) lady at Albany in Denunciation of the South.

‘ Mrs. Munson, a native of South Carolina, delivered an address before the Military Committee, in the Assembly chamber, this evening, giving a minute detail of her escape from the South after the breaking out of the rebellion. She had a black story to tell of the secession of her native State, and how public opinion was worked up to the proper pitch. She was at Richmond when the secession ordinance of that State was passed, and said that it was brought about by manufactured stories of John Brown raids. Her husband was forced into the rebel army. She afterwards was told that he had deserted. Her baggage was seized, and she was obliged to fly for her life, and has not since heard anything about him. After her arrival North she stated that many active Secessionists had found their way to Washington and were great Union men there, adopting it as a cloak to obtain news to furnish the rebels. The people of the South were kept in ignorance of the position of affairs in the North. Even the Wheeling Convention and the organization of a separate State was never known to the masses of the people. No extracts were taken from Northern papers but those that tended to arouse the people and embitter them against the North, showing that the people were and led blindly into the laws of secession.

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