The rebels seem now to be turning their wrath upon Commodore
Tatnall for destroying the Merrimac. The
pilots, to whose deception he charged the necessity of destroying the ship, ask
for a suspension of public opinion – and apparently with success. And in the meantime the different rebel
papers put in a proper light the consequences of the act of destruction. One of them, the Petersburg Express asks, - “What
hope can a people have when such an engine of warfare is wantonly destroyed?”
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington,
Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 2
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