Friday, January 7, 2011

Gov. Rector of Arkansas . . .

. . . seems to be satisfied with neither the old nor the new condition of affairs.  He has issued a proclamation calling for 4,500 volunteers for the defense of Little Rock against the approaching army of Gen. Curtis, but he denounces the inefficiency of the Confederacy in very high-flown language, and threatens that his mighty State may make a new secession.  Jeff Davis’ Little Rock organ is shocked at the Governor’s presumption.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 2

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