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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
t, have deprecated hostilities, but have at the same time declared earnestly and emphatically that if war was the election of Lincoln, he should have his fill to his heart's content. Davis is to take command in case hostilities commence, and in anticipation of such an event, he has made preparations to an extent little suspected outside of the States particularly interested. Two companies of soldiers leave here in the morning for Fort Pickens, and Gen. Clarke, who commands the Mississippi forces, is ordered to proceed to that point forthwith. Judging of what is to take place in the vicinity of Fort Pickens in the course of the next thirty days, by the great preparations making here and about, I should say that war will soon be upon you, and it would not be out of place to say that noises will in a little while be heard in Richmond, coming up from the Gulf of Mexico, calculated to startle even the dry bones now gathered together in the hall of the Mechanics' Institute. Arlington.