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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Rev. Dr. Tyng. (search)
r flag to wave over it than the Stars and Stripes. [Cheers.] So we could afford to keep Louisiana for alligators, but no other flag but ours should wave over it. [Cheers.] It the blood of thousands upon thousands were needed to seal the issue, with bowed heads we could only say, Thy will, O God, be done. "George Douglas, Esq., who gave $1000 to the Society, said he believed Providence had appointed Gen. Scott to be the leader of our forces in this second war for liberty, as He had Gen. Washington in the first. "Dr. S. A. Tyng next addressed the meeting. Never were a people brought together to maintain dearer rights or more important interests than these involved in the present contest. He could not take a pirate's hand, who were going out to secure a prize of twenty dollars a head for every man he murdered, and put a Bible in his hands, as a sanction for his course. What kind of a Union would that be, where the chains of the slave should sound from one end of the land to
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
Harold stands upon this place of skulls!" Not "the deadly Waterloo!" nor yet the grave into which freedom has fallen still-born from the loins of a vigorous young nation, in strides for the preservation of life and liberty, before the bayonets of a rude and licentious despotism! But on a new battle ground, almost within hail of old Yorktown, and dedicated to the same holy cause that made her victories memorable in the record of human achievements. From that consecrated field, where Washington received the oppressor's sword, and the genius of freedom felt that her shackles were rent asunder, came that gallant Southern band who met foemen of more than triple their numerical force, and drove them back in confusion and dismay.--Here, in a narrow defile of swamp and morass land, where three counties kiss each other, the "dashing Magruder" planted the standard of his country, and the brave volunteers of Virginia and North Carolina were rallied to its defence. Here the Revolution
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
a kingdom. The philosophical historian may exercise his ingenuity in conjecturing what would have been the result, if the fugitive has carried his fortunes to Charleston. South Carolina contains 34,000 square miles, and a population of 720,000 inhabitants, of when 280,000 are black slaves. In the old rebellion it was distracted between revolutionary principles and the loosest predilections, and at least one-half of the planters were faithful to George III., nor did they yield until Washington sent an army to support their antagonists and drove them from the colony. In my next letter I shall give a brief account of a visit to some of the planters, as far as it can be made consistent with the obligations which the rites and rights of hospitality impose upon the guest as well as upon the dust. These gentlemen are well bred, courteous, and hospitable. A genuine aristocracy, they have time to cultivate their mince, to apply themselves to politics and the guidance of public af