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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
souri. A gentleman who spent about three weeks in St. Louis, and who left that city a few days since, reports to the Memphis Appeal the existence of a strong Southern feeling, greatly predominating over the Abolition party.--The latter, he states, is composed almost exclusively of the German and emigrant Yankee population. To these may be added a few who are directly interested in army contracts for the Federal Government. When he left, the Federal force in the city was composed of Hecker's regiment and two German battalions of home guards. All the remainder had been drawn off to form part of the expeditionary force up the Tennessee river. Northern Missouri he reports to be almost unanimous in favor of the South, but the impulses of the people are kept down by the presence of Federal troops stationed throughout the country. All the private arms and ammunition have been taken possession of by the enemy, and innumerable outrages upon persons and property have been commit