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The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Philadelphia. (search)
he slave States; and then they will beg to be taken back into the Union. " "In the meantime, let the levees on the Mississippi be at once prostrated in a hundred places, while the water is high, and let the traitors and rebels living on the lower Mississippi be drowned out, just as we would drown out rats infesting the hull of a ship. Nor is this all. Let the servile population in the Border States understand that all moral obligation on the part of the North to sustain the peculiar institutional one hundred and fifty thousand volunteers from the free States, and the establishment of a land blockade of the strictest kind, extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi — accompanied by the flooding of the country bordering on the lower Mississippi. Do this, and the inevitable consequences of such a state of affairs — the extinction of slavery in the border States--will soon bring the rebels to their senses. " At a great Union meeting Senator Baker, of Oregon, declared: "