The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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A good effect of the blockade.

--Rev. A. E. Dickinson, Superintendent of Colportage, has placed upon our desk a dozen excellent tracts which have been published at the South, and are now being scattered by thousands among the soldiers. Lincoln refuses to let religious books and tracts come South, for fear that they may ‘"give aid and comfort to the enemy."’ Southern Christians are very thankful to the old sinner, for this enables them to do the very thing that they have been striving to do for thirty years. They now have an opportunity of establishing a Southern religious literature, as they have no Yankee publishers to compete with. One of the tracts before us--‘"Come to Jesus"’--has always been sold by the American Tract Society at three cents, though that society has a capital of hundreds of thousands. It is now published at the South and sold for three cents.--In this city tracts are being published at 10 pages for one cent. But for the blockade, our Christian friends would, in all probability, now be importing their reading matter from New York, that great Sodom of the Western hemisphere.