The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Rebels and traitors.

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Rebels and traitors.

This is the common epithet bestowed by the Lincoln press upon the people of the seceded States. The same title was applied by the British and Tories in the Revolution to our ancestors. Even George Washington was styled the ‘"rebel leader, Mr. Washington."’ It took the ‘ "rebels"’ some time to teach the tones good manners, but they succeeded at last; nor do we despair altogether of improving the Republican mode of speech, and that at no distant day. George the Third never perpetrated a thousandth part of the wrongs against the which Lincoln meditates against the Southern States, and there is no other difference between the two tyrants, except that the one was a gentleman and the other is a

The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 17, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Rebels and traitors.