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The position of the Confederates.--A correspondent of the N. O. Picayune, writing from Manassas on the 10th instant, says:
There is not a single act of the Confederate States that could be so construed as to justify any reasonable man in coming to the conclusion that the South intended to take Washington.
We have never claimed more than is embraced in the boundaries of the seceded States.
That is the whole extent of our claim.
Washington is situated in that part of the District of Columbia transferred by Maryland, and just as long as Maryland remains with the North, just so long we will refrain from any attack.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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