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The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Murder in Montgomery county, Md, (search)
Murder in Montgomery county, Md, --On Thursday afternoon three soldiers belonging to the 22d Massachusetts Regiment went on the farm of a Mr. George Wilson, near Silver Spring, and attempted to steal some of his pigs, but the old gentleman discovering them, expostulated with them, and at last attempted to pull a pig away from them, when he was knocked down and run through the body with a bayonet by one of the party, from the effects of which he died in a short time. In the course of the afternoon one of the party, named John Mara, was arrested and taken to Fort Massachusetts. --Wash, Star.
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], The emancipation proclamation. (search)
them earnestly beset me to proclaim general emancipation, upon which the other two immediately attacked them.--You know, also, that the last session of Congress had a divided majority of anti-slavery men, yet they could not unite on this policy. And the same is true of the religions people. Why, the rebel soldiers are praying with a great deal more earnestness, I fear, than our own troops, and expecting God to favor their side; for one of our soldiers, who had been taken prisoner, told Senator Wilson a few days since, that he met with nothing so discouraging as the evident sincerity of those he was among in their prayers. But we will talk over the merits of the case. Why an emancipation proclamation should not be issued. What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's ball against the comet. Would my word free the s