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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
n a bond of fate, and were guaranteed immortality except from the hand of Yankees. The grim old archer might well chuckle over this curious delusion. Let the croakers console themselves. Death will have them, either by McClellan or otherwise. There are no exemptions from his draft. The militia must answer to their names and the Home Guard also. The men between forty-five and sixty are more likely to be victimized by the remorseless Executive of the grave than by the Governor of Virginia. It matters little whether Death gradually chokes a man in his bed or dismisses him summarily by a bullet. In the Christian system, Hope is a virtue, and no virtue can have anything but a sickly existence without it. There can be no happiness where its sunshine does not fall, no faith, no patriotism. Let the despondent desist from their Dismal Swamp melodies. Let them cease from interrupting the jubilant strains of Hope's inspiring anthems with their doleful and discordant croakings.