Mr. Gustavus Myers, a lawyer of this city, seems to take an
active interest in behalf of parties largely engaged in business at Baltimore.
And he has influence with the Secretary, for he generally carries his points
over my head. The parties he engineers beyond our lines may possibly do us no
harm; but I learn they certainly do themselves much good by their
successful speculations. And do they not take gold and other property to the
North, and thereby defeat the object of the sequestration act? The means thus
abstracted from the South will certainly be taxed by the North to make war on
us.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 83-4
