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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1863., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 15, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Charge to Corday. (search)
Charge to Corday. We find that in our article respecting John Morgan yesterday, we did not state the circumstances attending the death of Charlotte Corday with historical exactness. Our only object was to impress the public as strongly as we could with the distinction between guilt and punishment — to show that the most subCharlotte Corday with historical exactness. Our only object was to impress the public as strongly as we could with the distinction between guilt and punishment — to show that the most sublime patriot, if thrown by misfortune into the hands of a malignant enemy, might be made to suffer the penalty of a common felony — that, therefore, the only proper rule in such cases — and that a rule which had been adopted by the instinctive discretion of ages — was to affix to guilt itself the brand of disgrace, and to leave tonctness. We, therefore,--in obedience to what we consider a maxim that never should be departed from — give a succinct history of the trial and execution of Charlotte Corday. It is one of the most affecting incidents in all history. Charlotte was a native of St. Saturnine in the department of the Orme. She had receive