. . . is provokingly cut off just now by the pranks of the telegraph. It seems to be our luck to expect great news and have the wires to give out in the midst of a battle, or some equally critical moment. – The people of this state have a triple interest in the success of the forces now operating in the South. We have the natural anxiety of all loyal people for the triumph of the national arms; we have also a pecuniary interest in the opening of the great natural highway for our commerce to the markets of the world; while among the soldiers who are carrying the starry flag in triumph to the Gulf, the sons of Iowa are full many thousands, and parents and sisters, wives and sweethearts, friends and neighbors, all await with mingled hopes for success and fears for their own beloved ones, the electric flashes which shall tell us of the doings of our armies.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 22, 1862, p. 1
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