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The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The lines, &c. (search)
Occupying the South.
We have before published a plan of a Yankee General, Casey, we believe, found on the battle field of the "Seven Pines," for the permanent military occupation of the South.
Casey being the General who lost everything he haCasey being the General who lost everything he had in that battle, ought undoubtedly to be high authority on the subject of permanent military occupation.
He proposes a standing army of 150,000 men, to be distributed at specified points of the South as soon as conquered.
One would think he might hereafter, in the American Union, is subjection to a military despotism, and it is for the mode and manner thereof that Gen. Casey, the fugacious, has prepared his plan of permanent occupation.
A hundred and fifty thousand men is the number that GenGen. Casey thinks would be sufficient to "hold, occupy, and possess," a vast and sparsely settled territory, occupied by a population of ten millions!
This is of a piece with Lincoln's call for Seventy-five thousand men to put down the Southern rebelli