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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Rumored Evacuation of Newbern, N. C. (search)
her. We may make an answer part of confession and part denial. We may say that we have not taken territory that belonged to the Yankee Government, of which said Colfax appears as the prosecuting attorney, since that territory belonged to the States which have dissolved partnership with the agreeable and loveable political family represented by said Colfax, and, of course, went with them, and cannot be dissevered from them. But as to the killing of the Union soldiers, that is too true. The "offence is rank,"and at least reaches the sensibilities of the virtuous denizen of the White House. How so grave an offence is to be atoned, we cannot imagine. It e war by McNeal, and Butler, and Burnside, and Hunder and others, and their examples utterly deprive the guilty Southerners of any plea in mitigation in answer to Colfax. The Examiner, whose attention was called particularly to the affair at Fort Pillow and the blowing up of a Federal vessel with a needless and reckless Confe