The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Unnatural and unjust.

--The Lieutenant General, who has been unhorsed from hire once proud position by the battle of Manassas and compelled to yield his saddle to McClellan, has the effrontery in his letter of resignation to pronounce the secession of the Southern States an ‘"unnatural and unjust rebellion."’ It is eminently natural and just, in his opinion, that the gentlemen of the South should be the subjects of Yankeedom; that the civilization which produced all the master statesmen and warriors of America should be subject to the civilization which is only prolific of shop men and pedlars; that the owners of a soil which brings forth all the great staples of American commerce should be hewers of wood and drawers of water to the trafficking and manufacturing dwellers of a soil which yields nothing that mankind cannot easily dispense with that the institutions property, and civil, social, and political right of half the American States should be overthrown, despoiled, and annihilated by the other half. The only thing that Scott considers ‘"unnatural and unjust"’ in this ‘ "rebellion,"’ as he calls it, is that Jeff. Davis is President of the Southern Confederacy. If any other man save his old and hated enemy had filled that position, and Scott had been offered the command-in-chief of the Southern Army, with the Federal salary for that office, he would now be airing his gout, dropsy, and vertigo in Richmond instead of Washington.