The Daily Dispatch: June 6, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Tories in the South.

In the days of the American Revolution, Toryism was a much more important element of the struggle than at present. The Tories of that day were larger in numbers and more respectable in character than the Tories of this. They showed themselves openly, and did not glide along like snakes in the grass. A man might have been a Tory then and have made some pretensions to moral and political principle. George the Third waged no such war against humanity itself as is waged against the South by Abraham Lincoln, and the Southern man who leagues with him is a traitor, not only to his country, but to the human race.

We are hot surprised to see it intimated by a Yankee that some of the Unionists, as he calls them, in Norfolk, are anxious for the punishment of the Secessionists. The number of these traitors, we venture to-day, is very small, and the quality inferior even to the quantity. They are mostly imported from other regions, though we do not deny that there are renegade sons of the South who make up in vindictiveness what they lack in all qualities of respect and influence. The fact that they have not themselves been punished as they deserve, is the best reason in the world with men of ignoble spirits for visiting vengeance upon others. Every community has a handful of such men in it, but this is no evidence of the real sentiments of the men in Norfolk, or any other city.