hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 2 results in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Northern item. (search)
A Northern item. --The Boston Transcript is a paper which circulates among the bonton Yankees, and makes high pretensions to respectability, and yet, so debased is public sentiment at the North, that the Transcript is capable of publishing such a paragraph as the following! Young Jeff. Davis.--A lady friend of ours, who was staying at the West Point Hotel summer before when Jeff. Davis and his family were visiting the same place, relates that one of the Davis children, a boy of only four years, bearing the ignominious name of Jeff. Davis, Jr., so outraged the decencies of hotel life by his profanity at the table, in the hall, and in the grounds, that a general feeling of horror at the little wretch's beastly conduct was the universal sentiment expressed by all the boarders, except the father and mother of the wicked young fury. Meeting the lady, our informant, on the entry stairs one day, and recognizing her as a Northerner, among the delicate phrases, the dirty-faced lit