Lord, what a scare they are having in the North! They are
calling everybody to arms for the defense of Philadelphia, and they are
removing specie, arms, etc., from Harrisburg and all the intervening towns.
This is the chalice so long held by them to our lips.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 152
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