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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e saved the effusion of blood; but now you have to lay the pleasant unction to your souls that you have permitted your brothers' blood to be shed with your wait policy. The army is enthusiastic, and you may depend they will be hard to whip. I receive many letters daily, from all parts of your State, all giving glowing accounts of the secession feelings and doings of the people. Pryor has just returned from the fortifications. Wigfall is in the field. Well may Lincoln and Scott set a guard about their pillows. Let them make much of the next sixty days. The young men, and all who do military duty, of course are away. The ladies are hard at work for the soldiers, and we old cocks guard the city at night. Woe to Old Abe's troops if we cross them. Will not old "fuss and feathers" take command, think you? Oh, how we should like to take a "hasty plate of soup" with him.--If he will come, he may not be fired upon in the "rear," but I could not protect him in
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Effects of the storm. (search)
The attack on Fort Sumter and the State Convention. The Enquirer mentions the significant fact, that after this news was announced in the Virginia State Convention, then in Committee of the Whole, they proceeded at once, by a large majority, to adopt the proposition of Mr. Ro. E. Scott, substantially providing for the assemblage of a National Convention, through which, of course, Virginia will be handed over to the tender mercies of a Black Republican majority. What the Convention does, or what it leaves undone, is no longer a matter of the slightest importance or interest. It may refuse to the people the right to elect their own delegates to the Border Convention; it may pass a measure for a Border Convention, or a National Convention, or a World's Convention; it may order the Millennium to occur forth with, or command the sun and moon to stand still; it may monopolize the sovereignty of the State or establish an elective monarchy, and elect one of its members king; or i