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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], The capture of gunboats on the Rappahannock. (search)
ly sufficient to have called down the vengeance of Heaven, and they left their principles behind them. A certain Alvin P. Hovey, who, it seems, is a General in the Yankee service, writes a letter to a Democratic meeting in Illinois, which the Phwould be compelled to allow the writ of habeas corpus, the trial by jury, and liberty of speech and the press. These are Hovey's reasons for not restoring the Constitution. The rebels, he thinks, should not be tried in the district in which the ofted, because the juries would never hang them, and the main object in trying a rebel is to hang him, right or wrong. Hovey then comes to the very milk of the coconut. The estates of the rebels have all been forfeited, he says, by their crimes,ions of such opinions, by an officer high in their service, is well worth the attention of all croakers and submissionists of every shade of opinion. We wish them to see what is to be their fate, if the Yankees conquer them, and Hovey tells them.