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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred Dollars reward. (search)
s, in both the land and sea service, are natives of Southern States. Nor is it accurate to designate all the people of the Middle States even as Yankees. It may suit the Yankees proper very well to have all their elements of strength classed as Yankee, but it is not the truth. As a general thing, they have staid at home during the war, making money out of battles which they do not fight, and gaining a great reputation for prowess besides, by the designation of Yankee, which is uniformly appliand gaining a great reputation for prowess besides, by the designation of Yankee, which is uniformly applied to United States armies. It may be convenient to give our enemies a name which condenses in one word all that is hateful; but the worst of them are the least injured by its application. We are helping Jonathan to go down to posterity as a great heroic character. He has had little to do with this war except hiring other men to fight his battles and obtain for him money and reputation.