FEBRUARY 8, 1863:
Captain Charles Wright Wills U.S.A. rejoices in a letter home:
"‘The sale or introduction of the Chicago Times in this district is hereby forbidden until further orders. By order of Brig. Gen’l. J. C. Sullivan.’
"‘The sale or introduction of the Chicago Times in this district is hereby forbidden until further orders. By order of Brig. Gen’l. J. C. Sullivan.’
That same damned old skeezicks has been protecting secesh property here in the strictest manner, and I’d never thought it possible for him to do as good a thing. It will do an immensity of good to the army, and if the President will only suppress the paper and several others of the same stripe, and hang about 200 prominent copperhead scoundrels in the North, we may then hope that the army will once more be something like its former self."
The Richmond Daily Dispatch also takes time out to chide Copperheads---specifically Clement Vallandigham---for his incendiary speech of January 14th. The editors denounce the idea that this great land could ever be occupied by one unified country in peace (for instance, the modern United States). How blind they are:
“[Vallandigham makes the] great mistake of supposing this to be a civil war. It is not a civil war. It is a sectional war… The lines of demarcation arise from the character of the people. If they are hostile to each other they do not [need] waters or mountains to separate them. If they are not, waters and mountains cannot keep them asunder. The idea that this whole continent is to be occupied by one nation is simply preposterous. In five thousand years the world has never seen such a thing as 200,000,000 of people speaking the same language and enjoying free institutions, all under the same Government. It is a dream of Utopian folly to suppose that it ever can exist. The separation has begun, and it will continue. America, like the Old World, is to be settled by many nations. Such is its destiny.”
The Richmond Daily Dispatch also takes time out to chide Copperheads---specifically Clement Vallandigham---for his incendiary speech of January 14th. The editors denounce the idea that this great land could ever be occupied by one unified country in peace (for instance, the modern United States). How blind they are:
“[Vallandigham makes the] great mistake of supposing this to be a civil war. It is not a civil war. It is a sectional war… The lines of demarcation arise from the character of the people. If they are hostile to each other they do not [need] waters or mountains to separate them. If they are not, waters and mountains cannot keep them asunder. The idea that this whole continent is to be occupied by one nation is simply preposterous. In five thousand years the world has never seen such a thing as 200,000,000 of people speaking the same language and enjoying free institutions, all under the same Government. It is a dream of Utopian folly to suppose that it ever can exist. The separation has begun, and it will continue. America, like the Old World, is to be settled by many nations. Such is its destiny.”
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