The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Samuel Price.

This gentleman deserves well of the country for his fidelity and firmness upon the recent visit of the plundering Federalists to Lewisburg. Like a true man and patriot as he is, instead of running away he stood up before his people, and in reply to Col. Crooks, the Yankee Military Governor of the place, told his fellow-citizens that Virginia had seceded from the old Union, and united her destiny with another Government, and he regarded her course as legal and just. At this point Crooks, who had claimed to be the representative of the ‘"most benignant Government in the world,"’ arrested him and started him off for camp Chase, in Ohio. He was finally paroled and returned home. The conduct of Mr. Price is worthy of all praise. He was a member of the Virginia Convention, and a prominent Union man, holding out almost as long as any; but he finally acted and moreover accepted the act of Virginia as binding on him as on every true citizen. He shows by his fidelity, when in the power of the enemy, that he is not only faithful, but bold in the performance of his duty to his State.