The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource]

More Southern farms.

‘ "Great inducements are to be offered for the enlistment of men in the army of half a million. Besides a hundred dollars at the end of the three years, it is now seriously contemplated to offer bounty lands and allotments of land in the fertile territory that may be permanently held by the United States.--The offer will be tempting to the unemployed in this country and abroad."

’ This is the old plan revived. This is a renewal of the promises of farms in Virginia! A promise which has been generously fulfilled by Beauregard, who gave the invaders some ten thousand small farms on the 21st of July, and put at least five thousand more in a condition to become before long the same kind of freeholders. Of course "the unemployed in this country and abroad" will jump at such a prospect. Stir them up, ye conscientious journalists, with lying accounts of small losses at Manassas and "tempting" promises of that which the North is no more able to give than the Devil was able to give "the fertile territory" which he promised if our Lord would fall down and worship. Bring back your dupes again to occupy "snug little Virginia farms" like those so plentiful about Manassas; but remember that you are responsible for every drop of blood thus shed, and that it will be required at your hands, sooner or later, unless what "the fool hath said in his heart" is truth--"There is no God."