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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], New Orleans banks. (search)
and Davis-whom is ahead? The foreign journals are struck with the folly of Lincoln, in calling out no more than seventy five thousand men for putting down the Southern insurrection. Indeed, General Scott and Lincoln are new struck with their own folly in making so small a requisition. But the blunder does not end with the Lincoln are new struck with their own folly in making so small a requisition. But the blunder does not end with the meagre force called out in the beginning. The chief mischief has resulted from the short period fixed for the service of the new levies. To expect to subdue the South with seventy-five thousand raw militia, and to accomplish the work in less than three months, was certainly a blunder for which General Scott may blush. The re, probably as much as three months. Festina lente is a very good maxim in war. It is certainly the maxim upon which Davis has acted, and upon which Scott and Lincoln have not acted. The response of the North to the proclamation has been very liberal, but it has been rather too prompt. Troops have been hustled away from home
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Petty Theft. (search)
Keep it before the people. Thursday next is the day of voting on the Secession Ordinance. On or about that day Lincoln threatens an invasion to deprive us of the rights of freemen. Let us give him our answer at the polis.
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