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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees at the White House. (search)
ecial object of the persecutions of the Yankee General Milroy, states that the Yankee General is assessing heavily the citizens of that section who are friendly to the South, after he has stripped them of all means of paying the assessment. "W. R. Parsons is assessed at $707; N. & G. M. Parsons, $450; Abraham Parsons, $340; James E. Parsons, $170; and others in accordance with their principles. They robbed W. R. Parsons of all his property previous to the assessment, and had him in prison at W. R. Parsons of all his property previous to the assessment, and had him in prison at the time." Since the time when Pharaoh required the Israelites to make bricks without straw, we have never heard the parallel of the tyranny which deprives men of their property and then levies heavy assessment upon them. But pre-eminent above all other tyrants since the days of the Egyptian despot, as Milroy has shown himself by these acts; neither he nor his foreign myrmidons are as despicable and villainous as the native traitors, who play the part of pilot fish to the Yankee sharks, gu