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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], A deluded people. (search)
The War.
--We, of the Local, though usually restricting ourselves to compiling the current local news of the day, may, in these eventful times, be permitted to transcend the bounds of what may be regarded as our sphere of duty, and make a few comments on the great national topic — the war. The North have inaugurated active hostilities against the South, which they will soon discover to be, to say the least, as "horrible a fault" as the mistake of Grouchy at Waterloo, which Napoleon so characterized on that memorable occasion. --We have committed no wrong upon the people of that section; but, on the contrary, have for years patiently borne their unprovoked assaults, and the contumely which her press and her representatives in Congress have heaped upon us. Instead of appreciating the forbearance, the conciliatory tone, and the compromising spirit with which their increasing persecution have been met, they have gone on from bad to worse, their envenomed hate growing by what it fed u