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The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Spirited letter from a Virginia lady to a Lincoln Hireling. (search)
tter should have appeared before the public at an earlier date, but had been misplaced and forgotten. The gentleman from whom it was taken declares himself a Kentuckian, was Sergeant in the company, and, were we to judge from the import of the letter, had been on very intimate terms with the young lady. The letter is getting a little ancient now; but its spirit shows the young lady to be one of the "True Blues," although she resides in Wheeling: Wheeling, Va., August 14, 1861. Mr. W. B. McLane.--Sir: By the reception of your letter I perceive that you are in the so-called Union army, in Western Virginia, where I trust you will receive that which every invader of Virginia's soil deserves. I would have you remember that I am a Virginian; and, if I were otherwise, my sense of right., truth, and justice, teaches me ever to recoil from one who has so far forgotten his manhood; so far forgotten that he was made after the image of his God, that he engage in the most horrible