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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], (search)
According to the laws of war, as understood and acted upon by every nation on earth, his sentence was just, and he but suffered the penalty due to his crime. We learn from the Enquirer that Lincoln has determined to retaliate by hanging Mr. Smithson, of Washington, a banker in high repute, who has not even been charged with any offence in violation of the law of nations, and who was arrested only for furnishing relief to Confederate prisoners. It is difficult to conceive the meditation eeived in his calculations. Every Federal spy taken within our lines will be hung, be the consequences what they may. He will not be able to intimidate our Government, and he can only inaugurate a war of indiscriminate slaughter. Should he hang Smithson, the deed will meet with instant retaliation. Painful as it may be, such must be the inevitable result. On his shoulders will rest the guilt of cold-blooded murder, with all its tremendous consequences. The Confederate States can wash their h