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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Who are Americans? (search)
mbia, and the public Exchequer, it is not to be wondered at that they assume also a monopoly of the American, name, and that foreign nations, with their customary discrimination, have accorded to them that title. What justice there is in appropriation of the name of Americans, it would be hard to show; nor is there any equity or in the South surrendering her claim to at least some share of Americanism. In the first place, it was in accordance with the swelling and beautiful spirit of Yankee to assume such a name even for the United States at large. When, in point of A constituted so small a part, territorially and numerically, of the continent of America. Still more ridinlons is its assumption by the fragment of Yankee States broken off by recent political convulsions. As a description of race, the term is vastly more approvable to the people of the Southern than the Northern States. The former are, with le exception, of pure English descent, a mogeneons people, identifi
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the coast. (search)
they have lately held out the same inducements to those remaining quiet in their habitations. They have secured five thousand negroes of the planters of Beanfort, stripped them of their remnant of property, keeping them exiles from their homes, and yet offer protection to Floridians, and, to show their truth, iron the negroes who fly to their shelter. The bait will not take. As in North Carolina and Tennessee, our people have learned wisdom from experience, and place little reliance upon Yankee, worse than Punic, faith. The disregard of national obligations cannot exist in unison with individual truth, we know from a life long trial of their public treachery, and this war has disolosed the corruption which has crept into every individual nature, and grown to be a part and parcel of the Yankee mind. We would be worse than madmen now to trust to the same stale and idle promises which have been given to the wind by Yankee breath, and which Southerners have learned, or should have le
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the coast. (search)
They were saluted with about one hundred and fifty shot — in fact, during the entire morning the booming of great guns were heard from all parts of the city. The enemy have now very formidable works on the river; not only by reason of the number of their guns, but of their range. Seventeen guns have been mounted in batteries, and the passage of the river is an impossibility for any other than an iron clad battery. The success of the Merrimack, or rather Virginia, (a better hame than that stream from which so much of Yankee fifth flows into the ocean of Northern life,) has set all the people astir; but time will be required to effect anything of value. We are very anxious to have full accounts of the battle in Arkansas. The loss of McCulloch and McIntosh is greatly deplored.--McIntosh — a name familiar to Georgians — is well known here, and his worth appreciated. May Van-Horn never cease his pursuit till the foe has been finally compelled to lay down his arms. Mercu
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
ear; provided he loses no time from bad weather or sickness; if he does, the lost time is to be deducted. In another part of the report. it is stated that the rations are deducted from the wages.--Forty cents per day for three hundred days is one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, provided no time is lost. Again, if the negro has a wife and children who cannot make wages, their rations are also to be deducted from the $120. So, according to the programme of this philanthropic and pious Yankee, the poor negro will sum up his year's earnings after the manner of the clown's sum-- "nought from nought and nothing remains; a tail from a tadpole and frog remains." It seems, however, from the report, that many of the negroes are not to be caught by these pretended friends. They are intelligent enough to see that they will be worked harder by the Yankees than their former masters. The Yankee proposes to call them "wards," but Sambo does not think that any better name than slave, if
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], The latest War New (search)
f by the enemy in reach of them. They are gloating over the prospect of annihilating this command by overwhelming numbers, as they had the forces of the only man like Marshal Hey, "The bravest of the brave," at Concision. Behold a mighty army has fallen like magic upon him, and Austrians in Italy, who thought Napoleon had fallen from the clouds, were no more surprised than Gen. Grant. On his left are 20,000 men exclaiming, in an unknown tongue, "as come to Beauga." "we fight Yankee." "Liberte on mort!" Hear their shouts and calling in the winding Tennessee, whose crystal waters mirrored the beauties of the Court of Marta Antoinette, when counties exiles rattled a little to the South, and braved the forest and the plague rather than submit to the haughty Bourbons. Their sons still live. March on! march on! is echoed by the hills. The thunder of the cannon and pealing musket, the flashing of the bayonets and clashing swords, startle the confident foe, and ere he
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $50 reward. (search)
Bumers of yesterday. of regiments were inclination the among be of Yankee the Rappahannock of casing of Fredericksburg. We did not in gentlemen who brought the to correction. not however, to leave at any time were Rappahannock river, with a he Richmond. A prisoner, a few days ago of Aquiztrees, to has there are but two attaches to
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
Bumers of yesterday. of regiments were inclination the among be of Yankee the Rappahannock of casing of Fredericksburg. We did not in gentlemen who brought the to correction. not however, to leave at any time were Rappahannock river, with a he Richmond. A prisoner, a few days ago of Aquiztrees, to has there are but two attaches to
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
tive. The report of the advance of the Federal reached Fredericksburg Thursday afternoon; as late as midnight Thursday night, Field, who was in command of the Confederate troops, assured citizens that the not believe, from the reports brought in his pickets, that the Yankee force was sufficient to threaten an attack which involved occupation of the town. The citizens and the civil authorities" reated, therefore, hope on the relief that General Field a troops and save the town from Yankee This hope was sadly cursed, for on Friday morning it was discovered by the citizens that the bridges across the river were in names, and that the Confederate troop were first acting from Falmouth and making their way through Fredericksburg into the country back of it. I have no to criticizes our General or his troops, it is due to the citizens and "civil authorities" to say, that they were solely distressed when they found that the Yankees were not and beaten back was this lessened wh
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
icketts and his wife while in Richmond, to know what that warrior has to say about "rebel barbarities" before the same committee: One of the most important witnesses was General James B. Ricketts, well known in Washington and throughout the country, lately promoted for his daring and self-sacrificing courage. After having been wounded in the battle of Bull Hun, he was captured, and as he lay helpless on his back, a party of rebels passing him cried out, "knock out his brains, the d — d Yankee." He met General Beauregard, an old acquaintance, only a year his senior at the United States Military Academy, where both were educated. He had met the rebel General in the South a number of times. By this head of the rebel army, on the day after the battle, he was told that his (General Richkett's) treatment would depend upon the treatment extended to the rebel privateers. His first Lieutenant, Ramsey, who was killed, was stripped of every article of his clothing but his cocks, and left
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Deserters from the Federal army. (search)
Deserters from the Federal army. --The Rockingham (Va.) Register says a number of deserters from the ranks and within the lines of the enemy, have arrived at Gen. Robertson's headquarters in the last few weeks. Most of them were Virginians, who had been "forced" to volunteer in the Federal army. Others are the straight-out Yankee. The Register says: In one case we saw a captain who had concluded to quit Lincoln and a bad cause, and come "down South to Dixie." He was a fine-looking fellow, well dressed, and seemed to be a man of intelligence. He was not only tired of fighting against the people of the South, but stated that he agreed with us in principle, and would rather occupy our platform than the one he had just abandoned.
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