The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]

---

---

Prospect of reconstruction.

The most miserable delusion that ever entered into the minds of men is that of the return of the seceded States to the Confederacy. An intelligent Virginia, who has thoroughly traversed these States, expresses the opinion that there is about as much prospect of their return as there was of the return of the British Colonies to Great Britain, after the battle of Yorktown. What should they return for? Who will bring them back? The Border States. which have deserted them in their hour of trial? Now that they have worked out their own salvation, and solitary and alone, established their independence, will the Border States, who have hung all the while as a millstone upon their necks, be able to coax them back to their own yoke of bondage? They would better try it. Having passed triumphantly through the flames of martyrdom, they are not likely to come back, like a sow that is washed, to be weltering in the mire.