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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
ers's Mill, near here, by a detachment of cavalry under Capt. Merrill. Sweeney's picket were surprised and captured, and his whole band, thirty-five in number, taken without firing a gun. Election of a United States Senator from Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 10. --Garret Davis was elected United States Senator for the remainder of John C. Breckinridge's term to-day, by a vote of 84 to 12. Appointment of John Jacob Astor — Naval affairs. The following dispatches from Washington we take from the New York Herald, of the 11th inst: The following order, appointing John Jacob Astor an aid to Gen. McClellan, has been issued: General Orders No. 51. Headq' are Army of the Potomac. Washington, Nov. 30, 1861. John J, Astor, of New York, is announced as volunteer Aid de Camp to the commanding General, with the rank of Colonel, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly. By command of Major General McClellan S. Williams, Asst. Adjutant General.
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Florida on a Frolic. (search)
and exalted the pride of a people as this grand one of the "manifest destiny" of the American Union. It looked with proud and exultant confidence to the certainly of the ultimate absorption of the whole western world in the Republic founded by Washington. It claimed a superhuman wisdom and beneficence for the Constitution of 1787, and it proudly anticipated the day when the States of the La Plata, the Amazon, and the Oronoco, should cluster around the same Government, and sit in the same Senat their liberties to some European monarch whose hereditary descent or dynastic merits should give him authority over his fellow-men. A great American Republic embracing the whole continent, imbued with the genius of the Constitution devised by Washington and reformed by Jefferson; and ruled by a spirit best described as being the opposite of every instinct of Puritanism; a Republic in which the public sentiment would tolerate no Bastilles, nor Fort Lafeyettes, nor Fort Warrens, in which habeas