March 12, 1861; The Charleston Mercury
It will gladden the heart of every resistance man in the South to know that the Hon. JOHN M. DANIEL, of fearless soul and pen of might, is at his old post again in the Richmond Examiner – a paper which he established in 1850 or 1851, and made famous by its able championship of the same great cause in which it is now nobly engaged. It is refreshing to read the articles of Mr. DANIEL, breathing as they do a lofty spirit, compact, vigorous, and logical in their array of facts and arguments, and scathing as the living lightning in the power and originality of their denunciation of submissionists. We have never felt any uneasiness about the sympathies or ultimate course of Virginia, the Cotton States but acting their part in severing promptly and forever the inimical Northern connection. When we see the bold and admirable course of the Enquirer, and in addition a paper edited as the Examiner now is in Richmond, we know that the day of Virginia’s redemption is at hand. It is only a matter of time. Virginia is Southern, and goes with the South; and they are short sighted and faint hearted who have ever allowed themselves to suppose otherwise.