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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Raid in Western Virginia. (search)
e openly, and Mr. Seward secretly, are speculating much more as to their chances for the next Presidency than as to the strength of Gen. Lee or the designs of President Davis. Proceed next to New York, and the recollections of Richmond, blurred by intercourse with Washington, fade into the hazy distance, and can be recalled ond daughters. I have hardly patience to dwell upon the evidences of my meaning. A slave who has run away from Richmond and gives out that he has escaped from President Davis, is elevated into an authority, and mounts the rostrum through the columns of the public journals. "The Southern armies are melting away by desertion, and Leef the two sections the moral conveyed in this apothegm! I could not but think in the first instance, of my parting conversation, a few hours before, with President Davis; of his calm, weighty analysis of the comparative strength of the belligerents about to close in a fourth and deathlier grapple; of his quiet, earnest confide