A Hard Hit

The Memphis Appeal’s Richmond correspondent, writing on the 27^th ult., says: “You recollect how the Moniteur spoke of the landing of Napoleon on his return from Elba, and how it greeted his arrival in the Capital. ‘The Corsican monster has escaped!’  ‘The usurper has landed in France!’  ‘General Bonaparte is at Grenoble!’  ‘Napoleon is at Lyons’  ‘The Emperor is at Paris.’  ‘Vive l’Empereur!’  Such would be the tone, I fear, of too many of the inhabitants of Richmond toward McClellan.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 27, 1862, p. 2