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The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hanging Seceders. (search)
Hanging Seceders. General Pope, of Illinois, threatens the halter, without judge or jury, to all Secessionists. This is the true spirit and temper of his masters. Never, since the first French Rebellion, was there such a barbarous and bloody party. Well does General Polk say, in a "General Order," "the invasion comes, bringing with it a contempt for constitutional liberty, and the withering influence of the infidelity of New England and Germany combined." None but men who acknowledge no restraints of religious faith or principle could hold up wholesale murder, rapine and pillage, as the true mode of conducting such a warfare as the present. Nothing but fear can prevent them from executing their threats, and happily we have abundant means of retaliation. Possibly, in addition to treason, some means may be found of reaching the men high in place in Washington, on whose guilty heads rests the responsibility of this outrageous war and all its crimes.