hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Slidell or search for Slidell in all documents.
Your search returned 10 results in 5 document sections:
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A British Contraband. (search)
Humbling John Bull.
--The redoubtable Yankee nation have just succeeded in "humbling John Bull" Three weeks ago they said he needed "humbling," and they were the boys to do it. They declared that if he said one word about Mason and Slidell they would instantly steal nine hundred millions worth of his property which they alleged was in their possession; that they would send out six thousand privateers to rob him of everything he had on the ocean; that they could raise a million of men in the Northeast and North, who would kidnap Canada, where they alleged there was also a strong Union party, in three weeks. Having thus victoriously humbled John Bull on paper, they wound up by humbling themselves in reality, and licking the very dust from his feet in their abject degradation and terror.
Did ever a braggart before so thoroughly kick himself out of the respect of all mankind?
The national mouthpiece, the Herald, and other organs of public opinion, hold out the ferocious menace th
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A British Contraband. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], A British Contraband. (search)