It is reported that cotton to the value of one hundred thousand dollars has fallen into our hands at Nashville, and will be sent at once to New York. This leads us to ask the whereabouts of those democratic journals which oppose confiscation. They are all silent, and must be sleeping. If that cotton were one hundred thousand dollars worth of negroes, think you we should not have heard from them? Nobody doubts it. Why, then are they less solicitous for rebel rights in cotton than rebel rights in “niggeres?” This difference in their conduct make them appear absurd. It makes them appear as though they would allow the rebels to be stripped of everything but the darkey. Messieurs Democrats, you are strangely inconsistent, and we advise you to set up a howl over that “cotton.” – Peoria Transcript.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 11, 1862, p. 2
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