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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Nashville. (search)
nt of Uncle Toby to the fly, "Go, poor devil, there is room enough in the world for me and thee." The local constabulary, of, which Corcoran was once a member, could have easily snuffed out that rebellion, if it had even reached the blaze of a fallow candle. But it never did; no life was lost on either side. The Government, grown wise by experience, exhibited a humanity to the conspirators which puts to shame the bloodthirstiness of the Lincoln despotism; not a drop of blood was shed, and Meagher lived to adorn New York with his illustrious presence and marry a ion of the house of Sands's Sarsaparilla. Whilst the British Government demonstrated by its humanity and forbearance in the rebellion of 1818 that it had grown wise by experience, the Irish in their turn have learned to distract the bar-room leaders and highfalutin orators who have so often instigated them to rebellion for the sake of their own personal advantage. They have emigrated in large numbers to Australia, Cana