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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia — a proclamation. (search)
desperation engendered by the late Federal reverses.--Among other victims, the last Federal Congress gets its share. The Herald thinks that body "nearly accomplished the ruin of a nation," and adds: If Jeff. Davis himself had drawn up the measures which they passed they could not have done the Union cause more injury. By their diabolical intrigues they have brought upon the country every disgrace and disaster which has visited our armies in the field. Under the lead of Sumner, Wibeon Fessenden, Lovejoy, Chandler, and the other Abolition radicals, they succeeded in befooling weak members of the Cabinet and imposing upon the simple good nature of the President, until they had marred the plans and interfered with the commands of our ablest and most patriotic Generals. This accomplished, they deliberately proceeded to stop enlistments, and thus enabled the rebels to outnumber our armies in every important engagement during the war. Again and again they interfered to prevent the