The North Carolinians have refused to give up Dibble to Gen.
Winder. And, moreover, the governor has demanded the rendition of a citizen of his
State, who was arrested there by one of Gen. Winder's detectives, and brought
hither. The governor says, if he be not delivered up, he will institute
measures of retaliation, and arrest every alien policeman from Richmond caught
within the limits of his jurisdiction.
Is it not shameful that martial law should be playing such
fantastic tricks before high heaven, when the enemy's guns are booming within
hearing of the capital?
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 121
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