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The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Federal outrages in Alexandria. (search)
ook the pains to write a note to the lady, who requested the guard, "hoping she would be relieved from all anxiety;" thus taking them completely by surprise, in order the more effectually to gain possession of any arms that might be in the neighborhood, unless the troops acted "without orders." But time would fail me to enumerate all the acts which graced this famous "taking of Alexandria" --the most unparalleled act of aggression that has yet characterized the corrupt policy of Lincoln and Seward, for they had not even the flimsy pretext of its being "Federal property" under the old Union. It now only remains for us to go forth, prayerfully and manfully, to repel these unprincipled invaders, who make the sacred name of "Union" a pretext for their aggressions, and drive them ignominiously from our soll. But let us go forth in no revengeful spirit; our hearts filled with hatred and malice, only strong in the might of a good cause, and then the battle cry shall swell up from every So