Since the rebels have found that . . .

. . . they have nothing to hope from foreign countries, they have begun to treat Europeans very uncivilly. A Spanish gentleman who has just escaped North from Norfolk found his Spanish passport of no use, being told that as the Rebel Government had not been recognized by any Foreign Government they could not recognize his passports. The two hundred foreign residents of Norfolk, he says, are treated “like dogs.”

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862