The time is up for the departure of alien enemies. This is
the last day, according to the President's proclamation. We have had no success
lately, and never can have success, while the enemy know all our plans and
dispositions. Keep them in total ignorance of our condition and movements, and
they will no more invade us than they would explore a vast cave, in which
thousands of rattlesnakes can be heard, without lights. Their spies and
emissaries here are so many torch-bearers for them.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 81
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