SECESSION FEELING RAMPANT.
Tribune’s Dispatch.
CAIRO, April 2.
A gentleman from the Cumberland represents the secession element as rampant in that region. Since the withdrawal of the Federal troops, increased surveillance and violence has been exhibited on every hand, and the rebels are inaugurating a system of guerilla warfare exceedingly annoying to the few remaining troops.
Union men are again put in subjection to persecution, and have been compelled to take to the forests and swamps to avoid it.
The Confederates are again jubilant, and threaten to raise forces to attack our troops in the rear. They think they are able to retake Paducah, and even talk of visiting Cairo while Gen. Grant is paying his respects to Corinth.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 4, 1862, p. 1
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