The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Patriotic letter.

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Patriotic letter.

--The following is the conclusion of a letter written by Hon. Wm G. Swan, M. C. from Tennessee, with reference to the recent acts of Congress:

In short, I desired that Congress should frankly accept the fact that a war, like the present fought tole corpors vegar, and for the very existence of a community, always requires and creates a strong central government, with powers, approaching for the time being to a military despotism. For the purposes of this great struggle, I feel that not only my means and personal exertions, but also all my rights and powers, whether State or Confederate, should be at the disposal of the military authority! Our country is precisely in the condition of a beleaguered city; and all its inhabitants should be considered for the present as a part of the army yielding implant obedience to whatsoever is enjoined by the supreme law of military necessity. In this kind of attitude we will convince both our enemy and foreign nations that we are in deadly and desperate

The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 25, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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