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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s and successful toil. Nay, we are told it is greatly superior to St. Stephen's chapel (before it was burnt and rebuilt), in which the British House of Commons sat for several hundred years, and in which originated all the great measures that have made England what she is.--With all its marble (paid for out of Southern money), the New Capitol at Washington never heard so wise a man speak as of old, or Burke of later times, or so eloquent a man as St. John and Chatham in the last century, or Pitt and Fox in this. It never beheld a ceremony so august as the trial and condemnation of a King by the representatives of a nation, or of a pro- consul for the misgovernment of fifty millions of subjects, or of a Queen Consort for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors. It is not encircled with the half of a thousand years, big as it is, fine as the attempt has been to make it. Its whole history is modern and vulgar, like the taste in which it was conceived and the low-brod Yankees that desecra