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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Scrap of history. (search)
A Scrap of history.
--The language as well as the spirit of the North, in the present war, seems to be borrowed from that of the British invaders during the war of independence.--Lord Cornwallis issued, in 1780, in regard to the State of South Carolina, which was then assumed to be a British "province," as it is now deemed to be a province of Lincoln's empire, the following order.
It sounds like an editorial in some New York paper in 1861, and in the very vein of the champion of Northern supremacy:
"I have given orders that all the inhabitants of this province, who have subscribed and taken part in this revolt, should be punished with the greatest rigor; and also those who will not turn out, that they may be imprisoned, and their whole property taken from them and destroyed.
I have also ordered that compensation should be made out of their estates to the persons who have been injured and oppressed by them.
I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia m