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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], Washington, Dec. 25th, 1860. (search)
s passed and gone. The time has come for action! action!! action!!! The city of Philadelphia, which polled eighty thousand votes at the late election, ought to be able to put in the field to-morrow thirty thousand volunteers. Her great fire department alone is a splendid military organization, and her young men only need the right kind of leaders to form a corps d'orniee of more magnificence than that of any other city in the Union, only excepting that of New York.--The great counties of Berks, and Montgomery, and Lancaster, and Northampton — Lancaster alone exhibiting a population of one hundred and sixteen thousand--would swell this force into an army more powerful than all the Southern States combined could put into the field. These, with the fighting men of the other counties of the States, properly roused and officered, could soon be made ready for any call on the part of the proper authorities. Gov. Packer, always keenly alive to the honor of his country, should act in the