The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], What does it mean?

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

What does it mean?

--The Powhatan and Brooklyn, off the months of the river, fired yesterday twenty-one guns. What does this mean?

It is unusual to fire a number of guns equal to that of the States, and the proclamation of Lincoln is that there are thirty-three States. Does he mean to exclude the eleven seceded States, as either independent or subject States?--adding Maryland and Missouri--or does he mean to dodge the whole question, and at the same time to ignore the division of States, substituting a Presidential salute of twenty-one guns? This is the most probable version, as in all the Northern States the clamor is for a strong Government, the obliteration of State lines, and the concentration of all powers in the President!--N. O. Delta, 5th.

The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 11, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource]

This text is part of:

Table of Contents:

What does it mean?