Daily Advocate
Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
May 16, 1861
The New York Freemen’s Journal, alluding to the Tribune‘s exhortation to have men to make a dash at the enemy in Virginia, Maryland, etc., without waiting for orders, thus pays its respects to that paper:
If this pestilent war is to degenerate into a barbarous raid on women, children, and defenseless villages, there will be two sides to the accursed contest. There is in Pennsylvania, Chambersburg, Mercersburg, Gettysburg, Waynesburg, etc., etc., a good deal more accessible, from the border, than any town we know of in Virginia or Maryland. Could any but a New Englander, a non-resident, a bran bread eater, and a lackey Bloomer woman have indited so infamous a paragraph? We decline measuring words of denunciation in stigmatizing its cowardly atrocity.