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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Rappahannock. (search)
ng the other on the head — only anxious that each might rend and destroy the other. The only consolation is that she has now that roughly lost the confidence of both belligerency, and which President Davis, in mild and manly terms, sets forth that fact in his Message to Congress, the Washington Republic, the gemb official organ of Lincoln, declares that the United States would accept mediation sooner from any other European Power than what it designator, in the language of Frenchmen, "Perfidious Albion." We hope never to see the slightest importance attached beteafter to any express on of sentiment in Great Britain upon American affairs. The only voice that has been raised officially in Europe in behalf of suffering humanity in this contest, is that of the great Empire of the French. We hope the day is not far distant when the Southern Confederacy, its independence recognized by the world, will be able to show its first and only friend that it is not forgetful nor ungrateful.
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], $300 reward. (search)
The Sufferings of Confederate prisoners after the battle of Gettysburg. The Liverpool (Eng.) Albion, in an appeal to the charitable of that city to contribute money to the relief of the Confederate prisoners left wounded on the field at Gettysburg, publishes several letters from the field: A lady from the vicinity of Gettysburg writes: "July 13th --We have been visiting the battle-field, and have done all we can for the wounded there. Since then we have sent another party, who came upon a camp of wounded Confederates in a wood between the hills. Through this wood quite a large creek runs. This camp contained between two hundred and three hundred wounded men, in every stage of suffering; two well men among them as nurses.--Most of them had frightful wounds.--A few evenings ago the rain, sudden and violent, swelled the creek, and thirty-five of the unfortunates were swept away; thirty-five died of starvation. No one had been to visit them since they were carried off the ba
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ese, in good faith and legally, should have been delivered to Capt. Winslow. When they were taken the Alabama had struck her flag and surrendered, and these men were legitimately prisoners. Capt. Winslow would have been perfectly justified in firing into the yacht. It is probable they had remained at Cherbourg expressly for the purpose of aiding in the escape of Semmes in case, as he did, he should get the worst of the fight. Another instance of the fair and honorable dealing of "perfide Albion." A few scattering men were picked up by some French pilot and fishing boats and taken to Cherbourg. After saving all the men she could find the Kearsage took a pilot and came into Cherbourg, arriving here about two o'clock, without, it is believed, any serious damages, although it will require her some two works probably to repair. Capt. Winslow, giving as a reason that he had no room to keep them in, immediately paroled the prisoners--five officers and sixty-two men — and they w
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
them over to the vengeance of Spain at the peace, but actually ordered the British fleet in the Mediterranean to assist in reducing Barcelona, their last place of refuge, standing alone between them and indiscriminate massacre. In the same way Canning induced the Spaniards to rise against Ferdinand VII. in 1823, and left them to the vengeance of the Holy Alliance. When reproached for this in the House of Commons, he answered in a speech which we are told convulsed the House, so ludicrous were the pictures he drew of the unhappy people whom he had betrayed to ruin.--Above all other nations, England cares most for herself and least for her allies. The latter she never hesitates to sacrifice, whenever a convenient opportunity offers, as she did the Catalans and Spaniards in these two instances, and Frederic the Great in the peace of Paris. It is not wonderful that she has few friends on the Continent or elsewhere, and that "perfide Albion" is familiar to the tongues of all Europe.
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], From Charleston. (search)
id the ocean would soon swarm with five hundred Federal cruisers, which would sweep the British flag from the sea; and that after England had been sufficiently reduced and exhausted, he would land upon her shores and pitch his tent in Hyde Park. These threats may never be carried into execution, but they prove the animus of the North, and leave no doubt that the first thing the Federal Government will do, upon the conclusion of peace with the South, will be to provoke a war with "perfidious Albion." A monitor was sunk last night about eight hundred yards from Fort Sumter, probably by a torpedo, and only her smoke-stack is visible to-day. About fifty yards distant is another wreck, supposed to be a second monitor sunk while going to the relief of the first. There were seven off the bar yesterday, and now only five can be seen. Persons lately arrived from Savannah say that Mr. G. B. Lamar, a resident there, and at one time a leading banker in New York, has taken the oath of
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Ho for Hyde Park! (search)
hat the achievements of Napoleon formed a better basis for such a menace than that of Sherman; that his neighborhood to England made an invasion more practicable; and that, having all Europe at his back, and possessing an amount of military talent almost, if not quite, equal to that of the Yankee general, a threat from his lips was not calculated to make Englishmen laugh. Nevertheless, even he never carried through that little enterprise; no hostile footstep profaned the soil of perfidious Albion, and Napoleon never reached any portion of her territories except St. Helena. And does Sherman think, because he has run through the State of Georgia, retreating in good order from Atlanta to Savannah, with not even "Major Jones" to dispute his progress, nor "Simon Suggs" to harass his rear, that he is going to pitch his tent in Hyde Park? We are no great admirers of English policy, but English power is another and different matter. We may not admire the rapacity and sanguinary appeti
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1865., [Electronic resource], The American War in England. (search)
abric of the Union will ever be reconstructed in its original form, and more and more likelihood that the progress of disintegration will extend far beyond the present division between the North and South. We observe the rapid destruction of that mighty fabric of prosperity which was so formidable to our colonies, and we look forward, at no distant date, to the day when the credit of the Republic must be hopelessly and utterly destroyed." Such a spectacle fills the mind of sympathizing Albion with unutterable woe. John Bull is chief mourner at the funeral of Jonathan. He wears a more lugubrious visage and a longer crape than any other of the relations. He passes over all the little differences between himself and the lamented deceased in former days; forgets what a rebellious son Jonathan was; how he robbed his father of his family jewels and licked him into the bargain. Let bygones be bygones! The poor fellow is dead now (some villains say from a stab in the back, administer
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