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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wendell Phillip's late Speech. (search)
The defensive system, This system, so far as we are aware, he never been reserved to by any nation, while it was able to prosecute offensive war. In the case of Ly-Vendee, referred to by us of Friday, that was eminently the case. The whole district comprised but 800,000 souls when the war broke out although when it crossed the Loire, and became what is knows as the "Charon war," about 2,500,000 were added to the number. Oat of this population, some fifty thousand peasants, led by the proprietor of the soil, took up arms of every description They were in general devoted to their land lords, between whom and themselves the patriarchal its existed after the feudal system had been slandered throughout the rest of France. They were firmly attached to their church, which had been overthrown by the revelation, and were stimulated and encouraged by the parochial clergy, who chemically followed them through all their dangers. --The immediate cause of the outbreak was a levy made by the