A Maine lady's opinion of the War.
--The Staunton Spectator publishes an extract from a letter found upon the person of one of Lincolns soldiers at Manassas, which shows that the hearts of a portion at least of the ladies of the North throb for the success of right and justice and the triumph of the Southern arms. Though the letter was written upon the 11th of June, six weeks before the battle of Manassas, she predicted that the North would get a ‘"tremendous whipping,"’ just such as they did get on the 21st of July. This good Northern lady, whose ‘"sympathies"’ are for the ‘" South decidedly,"’ lives in Bangor, Maine. Her friend was probably killed. The following is an extract from her letter:‘ "Mary Benson came to see me last week for the first time for two months. The 'Stars and Stripes' have surely divided us, for our sympathies are in opposite directions. I am not afraid to say that mine is for the South decide fly. I haven't a doubt but that the North will get one tremendous whipping. It is true the North boasts of its strength, but 'the race is not always to the swiftness the battle to the strong.'
"I read a most beautiful letter written by Mrs. Andrew J. Donelson, daughter-in-law of Andrew Jackson, to Gen. Scott, beseeching of him to avert the civil war already begun. It was one of the most touching letters I ever read. How could he withstand such an appeal? I can't feel at all reconciled to the war; it is so unnatural. Those who have the largest contracts to fill are the ones that cry loudest for the war, and swing the largest banners to the breeze; such things are wrong, and the right must and will triumph.
"If you should happen to fall into the hands of a Secessionist my letter might save you."
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