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Oxford Democrat
Paris, South Paris, Oxford County, Maine
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Letter in N.Y. Times from Frenchman in rebel army reports Confederate overtures to French agent for Napoleon's recognition to spark US-France war, plan to install Lee as military dictator sidelining Davis, gloomy army operations with Beauregard unable to hold Charleston long, Virginia regiments refusing orders south and merging elsewhere, concluding Confederacy's days numbered and backbone broken.
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The N. Y. Times has a letter from a Frenchman, who has been in the rebel army, to a friend at the North. He represents that a recently arrived French agent was thick with Davis, and it was thought an arrangement could be made to have Napoleon recognize the South, promising him all the advantages of the Confederacy, which would, they think cause war between France and the United States. Another plan was to make Lee Military Dictator, thus setting aside Davis. The reports of rebel army operations are gloomy. Beauregard thinks he cannot hold Charleston much longer. The Virginia regiments, when ordered South won't go, and some have merged in other bodies. The writer concludes by saying the days of the Confederacy are numbered and its backbone broken.
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the writer concludes by saying the days of the confederacy are numbered and its backbone broken.
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The N. Y. Times has a letter from a Frenchman, who has been in the rebel army, to a friend at the North. He represents that a recently arrived French agent was thick with Davis, and it was thought an arrangement could be made to have Napoleon recognize the South, promising him all the advantages of the Confederacy, which would, they think cause war between France and the United States. Another plan was to make Lee Military Dictator, thus setting aside Davis. The reports of rebel army operations are gloomy. Beauregard thinks he cannot hold Charleston much longer. The Virginia regiments, when ordered South won't go, and some have merged in other bodies.