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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs in the Valley — the capture of Yankees in Hardy County. (search)
rious passion. He expected to be recognized as a civilized person in the very gateway of the capital where he had been proclaimed an outlaw. He imagined that, by a little blarneying and wheedling, he could make Confederates forget the blood of Mumford. But, if we are weak at all other points, our memory is excellent. If we have not been able to avenge the demoniac murder of Mumford, we at least have not forgotten it. When the Ethiopian changes his skin and the leopard his spots, then may thMumford, we at least have not forgotten it. When the Ethiopian changes his skin and the leopard his spots, then may the Beast cause the blackness or that devilish deed to pass from our recollection, and change the red spots of the blood he has shed to white. He is a malignant and deliberate murderer as ever stood at the bar of a Court of Justice on trial for his life, and in no other light can he ever expect to be looked upon outside the limits of the United States, in which country murder, so long as the victim is a Confederate, is considered an accomplishment, and has attained the dignity of one of "the fin