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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Yankee Indigent on. (search)
Yankee Indigent on.
--The Cincinnati Commercial and Pittabury Dispatch are highly indignant at what they call the "distinguished consideration" paid to "seven rabid secessionists from Maysville," prisoners in charge of a Lieutenant and squad of six soldiers, on their way to some Eastern Bastile.
The Dispatch evidently thinks they should not be treated with common decency or humanity.
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On reaching the city these "unfortunate gentlemen" are conducted, not to jail, but to the Monongahela House, and there, until the hour for the departure of the train, fare sumptuously.
They were bibulous, these Southern gentlemen, and patronized the bar extensively, and, while they indulged their taste for extra drisks, sharpened also their trenchant wits at the expense of the guards, whose duty required them to pace back and forth in the same room.
They had appetites, too, these gentlemen, and appeased their hunger at the general table; were their guards in the list of those who s