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The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
city, and Lt. Butte, also of Virginia, being ` among the officers who recently arrived at Portsmouth, N. H., in the U. S. sloop-of-war Constellation, and refusing to take the oath of allegiance, have been sent to Fort Lafayette. Lt. Loyall is a son of our venerable townsman, Geo. Loyall, Esq., for many years U. S. Navy Agent at this station, and in other days a member of Congress, and a prominent and influential political leader — a son of Paul Loyall, who was a member of the famous association called the "Sons of Liberty," formed in the Court-House of Norfolk Borough, March 31, 1766; and whose patrotic object was to oppose the detestable Stamp Act, and to unite with others in the country in a dignified and determined effort to prevent the operation of a measure so manifessly unconstitutional and humiliating. George Loyall, of this city, has disbursed $20,000,000 of the public money without the loss of a cent to the treasury.--As an orator, his manner is pleasing and impressive.