Governor Brown, Georgia, writes the Secretary that he is
opposed to impressments, and that the government should pay the market price — whatever
that is. And the Rhett politicians of South Carolina are opposed to raising
funds to pay with, by taxing land and negroes. So indicates the Mercury.
We have news to-day of the crossing of the Rapidan River by
Meade's army. A battle, immediately, seems inevitable.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 2, p.
99
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