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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Virginia. (search)
Affairs in Virginia. A lady in Nelson county requests us to add the names of herself and daughters to the list of those who demand of Gen. Scott the return of the sword presented to him by his native State. The same correspondent informs us that the farmers of Nelson are planting the largest corn crop they ever planted. The wheat promises finely, and there never was a more flattering prospect for good crops in Nelson. The county is fully aroused to her sense of duty, and has formed several fine volunteer companies. The ladies are lending a helping hand, like the patriotic Virginia ladies everywhere. Among the volunteers in Nelson county is a young lawyer who gave up a lucrative practice and handsome property in Kansas, (the latter will probably be confiscated,) and came home to help on the glorious cause of his mother State. The writer adds: I have two sons--one only 15 years old; he is very anxious to join the volunteers, and we will not object if it should become ne
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
? Yes, I know you will to a man. I try to realize, Messrs. Editors, my position as a man and a Christian, but when I think of the great wrongs that have been perpetrated against us, both as a Government and as private Christians, I find myself unable to restrain myself; but I have still, and ever have had, abiding faith in our cause, our people, and God's justice. Virginius. Charleston, May 17, 1861. I have it on better authority than you generally get, that old "Tureen" (Scott,) and Lincoln will, on Tuesday or Wednesday next, make an attempt on Harper's Ferry, Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Urbana, and Tappahannock on the Rappahannock, and at Norfolk, and on the York river, merely to divert voters from the polls. I hope, however, that every voter in the State may determine to go to the polls and vote, if he never gets back home alive. Let him go with his ticket in one hand and the sword in the other, and vote your noble old State out of a Union with men whom you ca
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Charleston, May 17, 1861. I have it on better authority than you generally get, that old "Tureen" (Scott,) and Lincoln will, on Tuesday or Wednesday next, make an attempt on Harper's Ferry, Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Urbana, and Tappahannock on the Rappahannock, and at Norfolk, and on the York river, merely to divert voters from the polls. I hope, however, that every voter in the State may determine to go to the polls and vote, if he never gets back home alive. Let him go with his ticket in one hand and the sword in the other, and vote your noble old State out of a Union with men whom you can never live except in degradation. Virginians, next Thursday is to you the most momentous day that has ever dawned upon you. It is a day for weal or woe to you and your posterity. I feel as confident as I ever did of anything, that an overwhelming majority in favor of secession will not only effectually crush out that little detestable nest of Tories in the Pan-Handle, but will b
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Virginia. (search)
yland? Jefferson Davis, besides, is the superior officer in command. The Maryland Secessionists are understood to have a hand in these forward movements. G. A. Scott will not allow any fortifications to go up on the Virginia shore, in the vicinity of the city or on the Potomac. The Secession forces at the Point of Rocksoad, the Ringgold battery is to-day put up at the Relay. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have tendered their road to the Government, as a military highway, and Gen. Scott will accept it, when needed. An incident to-day confirms me that no aggression is meant upon the rebellious States, unless provoked. The Secretary of War wrote yesterday to a friend: "General Scott says he does not want any cavalry, nothing now but infantry and riflemen," which means that the Government do not intend to carry the war into the interior of the seceded States, which cannot be done without cavalry. The spies and rebels in and about Washington are annoying. The
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
"Washington Intelligence." --Among the latest items telegraphed from Washington to the Northern papers are the following: Ben McCullough is again heard from. He is in Virginia now, at Richmond, though but recently returned from an interior town. It is reported that he has enrolled a company of mounted men, numbering about 300, the nucleus of which are old Californians and Texans. It is known that he and Gov. Letcher have been conferring together for several days, and that Gov. Letcher does nothing without receiving orders direct from Montgomery. Gen. Scott is quite infirm and forced to keep his bed a good portion of the time, but he retains his methodical and careful business habits, and by personal examination of his numerous scouts as they come in he is perfectly "posted." Above all, he keeps his secrets.
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
. Several arrests have already been made within the last twenty-four hours, by order of General Scott, of persons who have recently arrived in this city, and who register their names on the hoteay 17.--A man by the name of Wood, from Newark, was arrested as a spy yesterday, by order of General Scott. Wood commenced his operations by tampering with the members of the Newark Regiment, through which means he obtained an introduction to Gen. Runyon, and thence to Gen. Scott, who became fascinated with his plausible story, and employed him as a secret agent of the Government to go South. W kept over him all night, supposing that the report this morning would release him; but before Gen. Scott read it he ordered Wood to be delivered over to the marshal of the district, and lodged in jail to await further orders. The supposition is that Gen. Scott is in possession of other evidence than that alluded to, upon which the prisoner is held. Wood is a man about forty years of age, an
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Gen. Butler, again. --The Massachusetts Militia General is in a fair way to become famous. He is almost the only General who gets his name in the newspapers — the only one who issues flaming orders and makes bombastic speeches Gen. Scott is nowhere by the side of Gen. Butler, and we should not be surprised at any time to learn that old Chippewa had been superceded by old Picayune. The latter made a speech to "the multitude" in Washington, Thursday night, when, according to the Star-- He said that he had always been a warm friend of the South, while the South was loyal to the Union When they shall have laid down their arms he would again be their friend; but so long as they continue in their present rebellions position he would meet that rebellion only with cold steel. The breaking up of our glorious Union he regarded as a much more dreadful event than the shedding of blood. This Union had cost too much of blood and treasure to be thus torn asunder, and so help him God, h