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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
o confusion by the cry of "They come!--They come!" Now this "they" was well known by every rational animal, from man to monkey, to mean exactly what did come — the barbers, swearers and thieves of Yankee land. We had been expecting them from Harper's Ferry, having been threatened by Col. Stone's command unaldread had passed into indifference, and indifference into a dogged desire for them to o ga Imagine, the, our surprise to see, in an opposite direction from the Ferry, on the top of our neverion several stores broken open, wine casks emptied; no redress save one Yankee wounded by a glass broken in his face by a brave clerk. The officers rode through one store; entered a bar-room in the same style. The Federalists are now at Harper's Ferry. [They have since retreated from that point.] If they ever come back, we intend to have a fight. We have confidence in our Generals, love and faith in our men; but have not the patience to stand another Yankee invasion. It no Southern troo