Monday, August 9, 2010

When will the rebellion be over?

Just as soon as the partisans in the North who provoked [it into] being, will cease their attacks upon the Constitution, and comply with its obligations and submit to its restraints. Hardly otherwise. – {Dubuque Herald.

It will be over when we have captured a few more cities, battered down and retaken a few more forts, whipped and dispersed the rebel armies at Corinth and on the Peninsula, and hung a few white livered Northern tories. It will not be long but if Mahoney gets his deserts he will not live to see it.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p 1

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