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The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
General Lee's letter to Mr. Barksdale, of the House of Representatives, published in Friday's issue, on the subject of putting negroes into the army, must set the whole question at rest in the public mind. He says: "I think the measure not only expedient, but necessary. " If, after such an opinion from the first military man of the Confederacy, that measure is not adopted, the responsibility of the consequences does not rest on General Lee's head. This letter is only one of the many evidences which General Lee has given of sagacity, forecast and sound judgment beyond any other public man of the day. He stood almost alone at the beginning of the General Lee has given of sagacity, forecast and sound judgment beyond any other public man of the day. He stood almost alone at the beginning of the war in his appreciation of the magnitude and duration of the contest. Nevertheless, he calmly girded his loins for the unequal contest, and, on his broad Titanic shoulders, has borne with majestic strength and dignity the military fortunes of the Republic. --Through this tremendous struggle he has never faltered, never shown signs
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
they can give our native-born speculators and extortioners any new ideas on that subject. Judging by the quality of the milk which is sold in Richmond at the moderate price of ten dollars a quart, we should say that a patent had already been obtained here from those Yankee milkmen who are said to skim their milk on the top, and then turn it over and skim the bottom, and then divide it into ten parts, carefully skimming each part. The love of property, that, in face of the declaration of General Lee that the employment of negroes is a military necessity, refuses to make the sacrifice, needs no importation of New England ideas to invigorate its hold upon goods and chattels. We must do New England the justice to say that its ideas on the subject of defending its own homes, from the period of the Indian wars to the close of the American Revolution, never went to the extent of refusing any sacrifice which was necessary for the defence of its soil. On the whole, we are determined no