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A Military dictatorship.

--That the project of a military dictatorship for the North is seriously contemplated, there is no longer room for doubt.--As cumulative evidence of the fact, we find in a late number of the Memphis Bulletin the following extract from a Washington letter:

Many are willing to invest the President with a military dictatorship, so that one mind, without so much distracting counsel, shall infuse new and terrible energy into the measures to put down the rebellion. A day or two since I attended the ceremonies of raising a flag over a new hospital, a mile east of the Capitol. Dr. Sunderland, chaplain of the Senate, and pastor of one of the largest new school Presbyterian churches in Washington, was the orator. He boldly proclaimed the sentiments of the loyal North, that a new war policy must be inaugurated, or the rebellion never could be put down. He advocated a military dictatorship in the person of the President.

The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 24, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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