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The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Major Weightman. (search)
fight for our rights." The North must put its best men into the battle, or she will in evidently fail before the energy, the personal hatred and the superior fighting powers of her antagonist. In my letters, as in my conversation I have endeavored to show that the task which the Unionists have set themselves of no ordinary difficulty; but in the state of arrogance and supercilious confidence, other real or affected to conceal a sense of one might as well have preached to the Pyramids of Cheops. Indeed, one may form some notion of the addition of the public mind by observing journals conducted avowedly by men of disgraceful personal character — the be shipped and be kicked and unrecognized paths of society in New York — are nevertheless, in the very midst of repulse and defeat, permitted to indulge in ridiculous rodomontade towards the nations of Europe, and to move our laughter by impotently malignant attacks on "our rotten old monarchy," while the stones of their brand ne