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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
Horace Maynard, one of the tory Representatives in the Northern Congress from Tennessee, came to Knoxville about twenty years ago in the capacity of a Yankee school teacher. He is a native of Massachusetts, and an avowed advocate of "Higher Lawism"
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankee Exaggeration and falsehood (search)
. It is but serving the Lord thus to promote the well being of his children. But no one else must be allowed to enjoy the Divine permission to plunder and murder. Not even the negro, whom he regards as better than any white people they who live in that paradise on earth, New England. So he must be hung; and he was hung for it. The following is the extract: "A negro, a very desperate character, was hung at West Point, on the river, last Friday, for the cold blooded murder of two Massachusetts soldiers. He had caught them asleep alone, and murdered them for their money.--He was caught the next day, and was made to jump off the limb of a tree with a rope around his neck. This murder, and other laitances of atrocity, cruelty, deceit, and ingratitude, on the part of negroes in camp, have completely cured the Massachusetts soldiers of that negro worshipping mania of which they have hitherto been possessed. They have repeatedly declared in my hearing, that they wished that the w