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The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 30 (search)
n compelled their native State to be no longer a part of that " glorious Union " that was. The majority of the citizens of Harper's Ferry, I am sorry to say, are disloyalists; some went so far as to go to Washington and request the so-called Government there to send more Federal troops to the former place to protect the Armory from the army of Secessionists, and also told the said Government that, " if Virginia did secede, Harper's Ferry would not. " One of these very men shouldered his Sharp's Rifle and called upon the citizens to come out and resist the State troops, stating that he had been assured at Washington that if they would stand by the Federal troops stationed there, the Lincoln Government would stand by them. Another one said he had " twenty good Union men at the Rifle works to resist the mob, " (State authorities,) and said, " Can't I get twenty more to assist Lieut. Jones ?" Such were the feelings then, and I am sure they are not much changed now; but with the exce