Dispatch expressing disfavor with the first flag of the Confederacy. The similarity was intended to reinforce the idea that the South was upholding the true American governmental traditions.
User notes The adoption of our present flag was a natural, but most pernicious blunder.
As the old flag itself was not the author of our wrongs, we tore off a piece of the dear old rag and set it up as a standard. We took it for granted a fag was a divisible thing, and proceeded to set off our proportion. So we took, at a rough calculation, our share of the stars and our fraction of the stripes, and put them together and called them the Confederate flag. All this was honest and fair to a fault. We were clearly entitled to from seven to eleven of the stars, and three or four of the stripes.