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The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The way Virginia Traitors Lie. (search)
The way Virginia Traitors Lie. The subjoined story from a Virginia Yankee is called by the Baltimore American "Another Wail from a Victim of Virginia Secession:" Clearspring, Md., Oct. 8, 1861. Messrs. Editors of the Baltimore American: As my first letter has found favor and acceptance in your sight, I am about to trespass upon your good nature by reciting a few more things done by Virginia's master and his minions upon the persons and property of the children of the "good old Common wealth." First, allow me to acquaint you of their modus operandi of impressment. They do not pursue the constitutional mode of drafting, thereby giving a few the privilege of remaining at home, but require that every man between the ages of 18 and 45 shall perform military duty and allow his own property to be wrecked, and his family to starve, giving his time and strength to his oppressors. They tell all that it is their duty thus to go, and if such persuasion fails they rea
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Uprising in the West--Salt manufacture — the Conscript law. (search)
ed for the wives of the soldiers. Old Rip Van Winkle (North Carolina) had a similar contract, (except that she paid seventy five cents instead of fifty cents,) and was also manufacturing in fine style for her poor citizens. Tennessee was fast erecting works, and Alabama will commence in a few days. The city of Richmond has contracted for twelve thousand bushels, one thousand to be delivered every month. Half of these works were sold for $450,000, and bought by a half Yankee and half Virginia Yankee company. They profess to sell the salt at one dollar per bushel, but you can buy so little that it is not worth going after. If you drive two horses to your wagon you can buy two bushels or a bushel for each horse you drive, and yet, by some means, you can buy from professed outsiders a large quantity, provided you will pay from $10 to $12 per bushel for it. I saw a woman who had come fifty miles, riding one of the wagon horses, and driving the wagon she could only get two bushels of