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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
rs to risk their precious lives in their old haunts, though the same be occupied by Yankee mercenaries. Numbers of formerly strong Union men are now in the mountains with rifles, side by side with Secessionists. Yankees have plundered the houses and insulted the families of all alike. Though parties of Unionists are springing up, many say they were too hasty in taking sides, and regret their course most deeply. Companies are organized and organizing secretly, even in the Pan Handle. Judge Thompson, long bitterly against secession, now writes that he "sees no hope for constitutional liberty save in the success of the arms of the Southern Confederacy." By excellent authority, I am assured that this feeling is gaining ground most rapidly in that section. The Unionists are alarmed. They keep their "things packed," ready to leave at the first intelligence of Lee's approach. Pierpont is full of guilty fears even in Wheeling, and has not slept in that "loyal city" for four weeks, but