Monday, November 14, 2011

A New Idea

The Boston Daily Advertiser prints the following suggestion, furnished by a gentleman abroad, respecting the disposition to be made of the Fort Donelson prisoners:

“I propose that they be exchanged for slaves, on the principal of southern representation, five secessionist for three slaves, reversing the order of values.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, April 4, 1862, p. 2

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