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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
The weather. When Owen Glendower wished to impress Hotspur with an idea of his importance, he told him that the earth quaked when he was born. "Very probable," replied the matter-of-fact, plain-spoken Northumbrian-- "Very probable, and so it would have done had your mother's cat produced a litter of kittens."--The heavens, if they have any sympathy with the troubles of man, certainly are not want to manifest it by any outward and visible sign. The sun shines as brightly upon the overthrow of an Empire, as upon the birth of a State-upon the coronation of a tyrant, as upon the inauguration of a patriot's status. There never was more charming weather than there is now when the Republic seems rocking to its foundation, and all the world, outside of America, is writhing in the agonies of political convulsion. The Indian Summer, that most delightful of all the American seasons — and nowhere, we have been told, are there more delightful seasons than in American--is more brilliant t
The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Aspect of affairs. (search)
ln and Seward have been able to discover any, they have keener eyesight than any man in this Confederacy. From the evidence on the trial of the Cato conspirators in London, it appeared that two of the leaders had a vehement dispute as to which of them should have Chatsworth, the well known seat of the Duke of Devonshire, after they should have overthrown the existing Government and set up one of their own in its stead. Shakespeare has recorded a similar quarrel between Hotspur and Owen Glendower, with regard to the boundaries of their respective kingdoms, which they had not then conquered. The rope of the executioner, in the first instance, and the sword of King Henry, in the second, settled the claims of the rival potentates. In the same manner the bayonets of the Confederates will dis cse of the pretensions of Seward and his comrades dust recovered from a mortal terror, induced by- Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, the think they have won everything because the were not utterl
The Daily Dispatch: May 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
Calling spirits. "I can call spirits from the vasty deep," Says Owen Glendower, when irritated by the alight regard Harry Percy was disposed to pay to his magical pretensions. "And so can I, and so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?" Was the very natural and pertinent answer of the dauntless and incredulous Northumbrian. It would avail little for the skeptic to ask such a question of the Yankee spirit rappers. Their spirits always come when called for in the regular way. To be sure they do not generally appear to have been greatly improved by their residence in the other world, so far as style and language is concerned. Shakespeare, for instance, having been summoned from his long home to dictate a play to some Yankee recording clerk, makes quite a botch of the thing, and Byron, Moore, and Scott have all, under the same circumstances, failed in a manner that would have greatly perplexed Murray and the Longmans. Nevertheless, they occasio