Posted on 05/07/2021 5:24:08 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Monday, May 6.
The last twenty-four hours have thoroughly contradicted the announcement of your cotemporaries, that troops were already ordered to occupy Alexandria. Like many other stories, sent from here in these exciting times, it had no basis save idle rumor, which inquiry in the proper quarters would at once have dispelled.
The Zouaves would like very much to be sent on service in Virginia, and they are not unlikely to be among the first corps ordered there, when the time comes. Some of them say that the best thing to be done with themselves is to march them over the long bridge, and then take away the draw.
The exciting rumor is circulating that orders went to Fort Pickens, some days ago, to attack and disperse the rebel forces in that vicinity immediately after the expiration of the twenty days' notice, given in the President's Proclamation. This is erroneous. While Fort Pickens is now fully prepared to withstand a six months siege, the federal force there is not yet considered strong enough to attack the rebels, as a large force would be necessary, not only to put the traitors to flight in the first instance, but to publicly garrison and hold the public property at Pensacola after it is recaptured. The rebels, in the meantime, are exhausting their money, and demoralizing and discouraging their men. If they can only be betrayed into the weakness of attempting to play the Sumter game over again, they will receive a needed and valuable lesson.
Major W.M. EMORY's resignation has been received at the War Department. He is a native of Maryland, but is on service somewhere in the West. Sometime since, he left his resignation in the hands of a member of his family, to be filed whenever Maryland should secede.
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Here our editors again rehearse several of the arguments we see on FR CW threads.
In the first they contrast the views of Confederate President Jefferson Davis with those of his Vice President Alexander Stephens.
In the second they refute claims made against Northerners by secessionists then and Lost Causers today.
Looking forward to DiogenesLamp's financial arguments our editors notice that Northern citizens (not the government) had invested $500,000,000 ($trillions in today's values) in other states' "infrastructure" (our word) bonds and those were now repudiated by secessionist states.
They also note Federal expenditures acquiring Florida, Louisiana and the war for Texas.
Still, they've said nothing about "money flows from Europe", so I still think that was not such a big deal as DiogenesLamp wants us to believe.
Hi Professor.
Everyone knows the first casualty of war is the truth.
Kinda like today.
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