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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Voice from the North. (search)
ances to spread and heighten the delu Nothing could illustrate more fully the madness, which is now waning so fast, than the facility with which they have been able, hitherto, to impose it on the public credulity. We presume that no one who knows anything of the American character, or has read the history of the American people, can honestly believe the latter to be either cowards or mercenaries. With the sad exception of a portion of the population of New England, in the struggle from 1819, there is no record of their having ever shrunk from any of the duties or sacrifices imposed on them by patriotism in time of war. On the contrary, they have been so ready, always to answer to the call of country, that they have more than once mistaken for it the false appeals of demagoguism and passion. They have always been so willing, and often so anxious to fight, that European diplomacy has long characterized them, proverbially, as disturbers of the peace of nations. It was this hasty
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate account of the battle of Franklin. (search)
Can the Ethiopian change his skin? We noticed, some time since, in one of our exchanges, a statement that a certain negro, living, we think, in Savannah or Augusta, Georgia, was changing color and becoming white. We recall to mind this instance, from the fact that there is an old negro on one of our river steamers, who has followed the business of a pilot since 1819, whose skin is now, likewise, changing from jet black to the fairest white. His neck and arms, as far down as his fingers, are of a smooth, soft, delicate whiteness, that would rival that of the tenderest, purest Circassian. His lips are of a soft, ruddy hue, and his face and body beginning to show the same radical wonderful change. His name is Peter, and a more faithful, true hearted servant cannot be found. He has been the means of rescuing from watery graves several persons, in cases of accidents to boats on the Chattahoochee river, and, but a few years since, saved from drowning a lady now living in our city.
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], A country life. (search)
be eighty. In 1826 died Joseph Cradock of the 'Village Memoirs,' and a devoted horticulturist, aged eighty-five. Three years after, (1820,) Sir Uvedale Prite bade final adieu to his delightful seat of Foxley, at the age of eighty-three. Sir John Sinclair lived fairly into our own time, (1835,) and was eighty-one at his death. William Speechley, whom Johnson calls the best gardener of his time, and who established the first effective system of hot-house culture for pines in England, died in 1819, aged eighty-six; and in the same year, William Marshal, a voluminous agricultural writer and active farmer, died at the age of eighty. And I must mention one more, Dr. Andrew Duncan, a Scotch physician, who cultivated his garden with his own hands — inscribing over the entrance gate 'Hine salus'--and who was the founder of the Horticultural Society of Edinburg. This hale old doctor died in 1828, at the extreme age of eighty-four; and to the very last year of his life he never omitted going
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--one thousand Dollars Reward. (search)
world-renowned University of Gottingen. 1817-18 he passed at Paris, visiting London in the spring of 1818, and remaining for a couple of months at Cambridge and Oxford. "During this time he formed the acquaintance of most of the prominent men of the day in England, among them Sir Walter Scott, Jeffrey, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Davy, Mackintosh, Romilly and others. During the fall of 1818 he revisited the Continent, and spent the winter months between Naples, Florence and Rome. In 1819 he made a short tour through Greece, and returned to the United States the same year, entering immediately upon his Gufies as Professor in Cambridge University. "Shortly afterward he became the editor of the North American Reci, and his powerful pen was employed in vindicating American principles and institutions against the throng of English writers then perambulating through the country and using their efforts to ridicule and bring them into contempt. In 1824 Mr. Everett delivered the
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