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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
The National Crisis. speech from Attorney General Benjamin--movements at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard-- the free navigation of the Mississippi — postage of the Southern Confederacy, &c. A speech from Attorney General Benjamin. The 22d of February was celebrated with great spirit in New Orleans. Among other incidents, ex-Senator Benjamin presented the military with a flag on behalf of the ladies.--In his speech, he said: I speak, gentlemen, in the belief that our independence is not to be maintained without the shedding of our blood. I know that the conviction is not shared by others. Heaven grant that I may prove mistaken. Yet, fearful as is the ordeal, and much as war is to be deplored, it is not the unmixed evil which many consider it to be. By a beneficent dispensation of the Creator, that which to mortals seems most calamitous is not unfrequently converted into a blessing at His hands. The fire sweeps over the stubble, and the charred and blackened surface o