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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The English press on the emancipation Society. (search)
's circulars and advertisements. What doubt, then, that an imposing meeting, attended by men of genius, of high attainments, of great social position, of political renown, would bear witness to the interest with which large and influential sections of English society follow the progress of Mr. Lincoln's policy ?. If even what is called the world — the frivolous, unthinking people who take their opinions from the press, who dislike Yankees for their pertness and boasting, and admire Lee and Jackson for their unexampled heroism — if even jealous politicians or illiberal soldiers stood apart, surely there would be enough of the more original thinkers to fill a platform ? More than this, in the centre of this great capital, with its hundreds of churches, in the neighborhood of men who have spent their lives in advocating every charitable cause, it might have been thought that a meeting professedly in favor of negro emancipation would not have wanted names of eminence. After weeks of
New Orleans. --The Appeal (Jackson) has an interesting latter written by one of the prisoners at New Orleans who were recently exchanged and sent up the river. The writer says that the day they left the Crescent City (22d of February) a company of infantry was ordered to charge with fleed bayonets on the thousands of woman and children who were gathered to see them leave: Two women, he continues, were wounded by the gallant New Englanders, one of them seriously; but many a brave girl seized the bayonet with one feeble arm and fear easily stood her ground, while with the other she waited us her blessings and adieus. Tots command was given by a ferocious looking Hessian Major, who spoke broken English, and subsequently sent for a battery of light artillery to complete the work of depression by trampling the refractory "she adders" under the horses. hoofs. The 20th of February was a glorious day for accession in New Orleans. Gen Banks must have been amazed and delighted