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The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], The emancipation proclamation. (search)
d be induced, by a proclamation of freedom from me, to throw themselves upon us, what should we do with them? How can we feel and care for such a multitude? General Butler wrote me, a few days since that he was issuing more rations to the slaves who have rushed to him than to all the white troops under his command. They eat, and that is all; though it is true General Butler is feeding the whites also by the thousands, for it nearly amounts to a famine there. What is to prevent the rebels from Enslaving the Negroes again? If, now, the pressure of the war should call off our forces from New Orleans to defend some other point, what is to prevent ten) it would withdraw the slaves from the rebels, leaving them without laborers, and giving us both laborers and soldiers. That the difficulty experienced by General Butler and other Generals arose from the fact that half-way measures could never avail. It is the inherent vice of half-way measures that they create as many diffic
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Conscript act in North Carolina. (search)
The following are the names of the Yankee officers captured at Shepherdstown, Va., and sent to this city on Sunday, viz: Lt. Col. Theodore Jones, 20th Ohio; John Brown, Captain do., D. F. Gilliam, 69th Pa., M. Dobaney, 1st Lieut. 42d N. Y., B. W. Minor, 2d Lieut. 34th N. Y.; James Kirk, 1st Lieut. do.; J. G. Butler, 2d Lieut. 7th Maine; J. S. Garsed, 1st Lieut. 23d Pennsylvania. We believe the Captain John Brown, of the 20th Ohio regiment, one of the captives named above, is a son of the veritable "Old John Brown" whose body now "lies mouldering in the ground," and whose exploits at Harper's Ferry in initiating the present negro crusade against the South are known to the world. A few months since, the fact that John Brown, Jr., was raising a company in Ohio to avenge his father's death, was paraded with a great flourish of trumpets by the Northern press. We do not know that there is any indictment pending against John Brown, Jr., for his participation in the insurrection at H