There are vague rumors of lawless outrages committed on
Southern men in Philadelphia and New York; but they are not well authenticated,
and I do not believe them. The Yankees are not yet ready for retaliation. They
know that game wouldn't pay. No — they desire time to get their money out of the
South; and they would be perfectly willing that trade should go on, even during
the war, for they would be the greatest gainers by the information derived from
spies and emissaries. I see, too, their papers have extravagant accounts of imprisonments
and summary executions here. Not a man has yet been molested. It is true, we
have taken Norfolk, without a battle; but the enemy did all the burning and
sinking.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 31
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