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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of an Express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. (search)
n are treated with superstitions veneration, and their incoherent ravings regarded as the genuine outpourings of inspiration.--It must be under the influence of some such superstition, we presume, that our volatile friends, the Yankees, enter upon record "such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff" as we have lately been presented with under the name of conversations with Lieutenant. General Winfield (or Wingfield) Scott, insisting at the same time, upon the title of its author, to be placed, like Saul, among the prophets. What other title the distinguished utterer can have to that lofty eminence it is difficult to imagine. Most certainly, whatever it may be, it is not of that character described by Cicero, which consists in foretelling the future by judging from the past; for the country probably never produced a man who has risen so high, with so little pretensions to those qualifications which are understood to be requisite to the formation of a character for statesmanship. His whole