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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
der Slave-labor States, that ample aid in men and money would be given to the Southern cause. And an adroit knave named Sanders, who had been a conspicuous politician of the baser sort in the North, and who was in Montgomery as the self-constitutedossible. To impress his new political associates with exalted ideas of his power as a Democratic leader in the North, Sanders sent, by telegraph, the following pompous dispatch to his political friends in New York:-- Montgomery, April 14. Tond curt-- “Sumter is ours, and nobody hurt; With mortar, Paixhan, and petard, We tender Old Abe our Beau-regard.” George N. Sanders. This man, as we shall observe hereafter, was a conspicuous actor in the most infamous work of the conspiratorsesponse of some of the ablest representatives of the venerable Democratic party to the slanderers of that party, such as Sanders and his like in the South, and its trading politicians in the North. Representative men of the Democratic party in di