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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Country residence Burned. (search)
Privateering and piracy.
That chief of Pirates, Abraham Lincoln, has issued a crazy Proclamation declaring that it is his purpose to treat armed vessels, sailing under letters of marque from the Confederate States, as pirates, and to hold them, if captured, subject to the laws of piracy.--This, observes the Enquirer, is an absurdity, which could only emanate from a miserable Black Republican lawyer.
All the world knows that the law of nations recognizes the "militia of the seas" as a legitimate arm of offensive service.
For hundred of years the policy of every nation has been to cripple, by all available means, the commerce of an enemy.
In the last war with Great Britain our privateers swarmed upon the ocean.
Mr. Marcy, Secretary of State under Pierce, in an able paper, maintained the right and the policy of privateering, and refused to enter into a convention with the European Powers to abolish it.
The Proclamation will have no effect in stopping privateers.
Men who g
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Return of military. (search)
The prisoners.
We understand that the Naval officers, now prisoners here, were arrested in an attempt to blow up the United States Navy-Yard at Portsmouth.
We take it for granted that no prisoners will be given up until we learn whether Lincoln intends to regard the rules of civilized war-fare in his treatment of Southern soldiers and privateers.
We understand he puts every officer under arrest who resigns.
The Fueling in Arkansas.
--The Napoleon Planter, speaking of the probability of Lincoln stationing troops in Arkansas to attack Mississippi from the soil of that State, says:
"Should they attempt to land in Napoleon, or in Desha county, our citizens will fatten the catfish from Memphis to New Orleans with their Abolition carcases."
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Liberality. (search)
Plot discovered to burn Willard's Hotel--Lincoln and Old Scott Badly Scared. Alexandria, April 20.
--A plot to burn Willard's Hotel, at Washington, was discovered last night.
Fifteen bundles of inflammable material were found distributed in various parts of the building, with slow matches attached.
Cassius M. Clay and seventy-five Border Ruffians are quartered at Willard's, and it is supposed the plot was to exterminate these scoundrels.
Abe Lincoln and Old Scott have been frightened out of seven years growth.
They are hourly expecting that the White house and other public buildings will be blown to pieces.
The citizens generally partake of the alarm, and women and children are fast leaving the place.
All along the line of railroad from Alexandria to Richmond, the troops are drilling, and the Confederate flag is flying.
The war spirit in Virginia is now thoroughly aroused, and the Capitol must soon fall into the hands of our troops.
A band of
Colloquy
--Lincoln--"I go 75,000." Davis--"I'll see that 75,000, and go 150,000 better."
The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Newspaper suspended. (search)