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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Queen Victoria (search)
The burning of Hampton. --There is no incident in the progress of war that occasions a keener sensation of regret than the configuration of towns and villages — the destruction of habitations around which load associations cluster, and consecrhe torch to his own dwelling than leave it to be polluted by the presence of a barbarous foe. The burning of the town of Hampton was an act in regard to which there may still be a difference of opinion; and hence we are glad to have it in our power eived in Richmond. Yorktowns, Aug. 10th, 1861. Messrs. Editors: Your information is right as to the burning of Hampton, but wrong as to the means by which it was done. The town, with the exception of two or three houses, is utterly destroed it any how? In this light, I believe a majority of the sufferers now in exile will view it. Many of us, when we left Hampton, regarded its destruction as almost certain. Had we remained there, we would have required a large military force to pr
The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Courtship and marriage (search)
The Hampton Lesson. The burning of Hampton is a warning to the North of the utter impossibility of gaining the object of this war. That object is to compel the South to remain a commercial and manufacturing vassal of the North. It could not be achieved if the flag of the U. States could be made to wave in triumph from Washington to the Rio Grande. The spirit and temper in which this war has begun; the proclamation in advance of rape and rapine, handcuffing and hanging, as the proper mode of conducting the war; and the acts of Congress confiscating Southern property, leave no other alternative to a people who have the slightest spark of spirit than to resist the invaders to the death and by the most extreme measures of resistance. It may be difficult for mercenary souls to comprehend the fact, but they may as well understand it at first as at last, that Hampton is but the beginning of the end. Its own property holders applied the torch to their dwellings rather than they shoul