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: January 30, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Unionists or search for Unionists in all documents.
Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:
European items.
A French opinion of American Affairs.[from the Paris Soicle, Jan. 1.
We do not flatter ourselves with the hope that 1862 will bring us the solution of the American crisis.
Unionists, and separatists, federal and Confederates, abolitionists and partisans of slavery, at the commencement of a struggle which has given rise to all those barbarous neologisms, cannot all at once lay down their arms.
But what will war effect?
Why make the gulf between them wider and wider?
Is a return to peaceful discussion possible?
Are the respective pretensions of the North and of the South of such a nature that they cannot be beneficially examined by the eminent men of the different States or by impartial mediators?
Mediation, which certain journals have rejected as visionary, we still regard as the sole means, not only of putting an end to the internal discords of the great American Republic but also of preventing a war between England and the United States, which number am
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], Re-enlistment in the army. (search)
Unionists in the South.
The Lincoln journals labor with untiring assiduity to maintain the long ago exploded falsehood of a Union party in the South as if it were the most manifest and undeniable truth.
They say there is a powerful Union feeling even in the heart of Secessia, and that all that is necessary to developed it is the presence of Federal troops.
They undertake to draw a distinction between the Southern Government and the Southern people, and profess to believe that a large Union element exists among the masses, but is kept down under a reign of terror.
Whether they believe what they say we do not pretend to decide.
It is safe, as a general rule, to conclude that they employ language only to deceive, but there is such a thing among habitual story-tellers as repeating a falsehood so often that they actually believe it themselves.
It may be so with the oft-repeated assertion that the old Union is still dear to the hearts of a large number of the Southern people.