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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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Pardoned. --Gov. Letcher yesterday extended Executive clemency to Beverly Dickinson, who was condemned by a Court in Wise county to a year's imprisonment for unlawful killing.
horn, with as much promptness and fidelity, as if it were the blast of Gabriel's trumpet! We have, therefore, no sympathy with the puling and puerile pettishness of Bennett, Brooks & Co., at anything their master and captain may say or do. More influential men than themselves walk with docility and alacrity in his footsteps. At first we felt sad, and, "albeit, unused to the melting mood," were almost ready to shed tears over the metamorphosis exhibited by our old friends, Fillmore. Dickinson, Cass, Everett, Douglas, Wood, Gushing & Co. Never, since Nebuchadnezzar went on all fours and grazed with the oxen, has the world seen such a degrading transformation. But, on the whole, we concluded it was about as philosophical to laugh as to cry, and there was something ludicrous in seeing these "solid men" of the North, these portly old silver greys, with their dignified rotundity, heavy watch chains, gold-headed canes, and countenances of portentous importance, scrambling, running a