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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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s. Proscription by the clergy ceased in this country with the wars of the Puritans. Proscription of the clergy has commenced with the war of Mr. Lincoln. You have no doubt noticed that ministers of the Gospel have at all times, since the outbreak of the war, been denounced in unmeasured terms when it has been known that they will not prostitute their pulpits to the support of the Administration. Northern Slanders Refuted. The following extract from a letter received by Mrs. W. H. Merrill, wife of one of the wounded Federal officers at Richmond, is published in the Rochester (N. Y.) Express. It shows how utterly false have been the statements in many of the Northern press that the Virginians were treating the Federal prisoners with inhumanity: "I received a wound from a musket ball in my left breast, the ball lodging in my left side. It was a very narrow escape from instant death, but our Heavenly Father willed it otherwise. I was taken prisoner with hundreds o