Ashland.—A
very deep snow this morning. The cars are moving slowly on the road, with two
engines attached to each train. Our gentlemen could not go to Richmond to-day.
Washington's birthday is forgotten, or only remembered with a sigh by his own
Virginia. Had he been gifted with prophetic vision, in addition to his great
powers, we would still remain a British colony; or, at least, he would never
have fought and suffered for seven long years to have placed his native South
in a situation far more humiliating than the colonies ever were towards the
mother-country; or to have embroiled her in a war compared to which the old
Revolution was but child's play.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 194
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