It is said that Gen. Hunter has orders to burn the city of
Charleston. “And let all the people say Amen!” – Davenport Gazette.
The Abolitionists will no doubt say amen to this barbarous
and infamous sentiment, but generous and honest people are governed by higher
and more noble impulses. – Ft. Madison
Plaindealer.
The “generous and honest people,” in this category, are as corrupt
at heart and disloyal of mind as Judas Iscariot or Benedict Arnold.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 2
