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The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], Captain Semmes. (search)
led that of Napoleon upon the land. Of course his "mode of warfare was contrary to the (Yankee) system." Did they over see the instructions of the Revolutionary Congress to "John Paul Jones, Esq.," (see page thirty-eight of Sherburne's Life of Paul Jones,) to "take, sink, burn or destroy all such of the enemy's ships, vessels, goods and effects as you may be able"? Perhaps the offence of Captain Semmes consists in his violation of the Yankee patent? Certain it is, Jones had no such field of opJones had no such field of operations as Semmes. No sea was safe from him. From the coast of the United States to the Cape of Good Hope there was not a wave that American commerce was secure on. The dreadful pirate seemed ubiquitous. The Flying Dutchman never caused more apprehension among superstitious marines. He laughed to scorn efforts of the whole United States navy to overtake him, though he made his path across the ocean as light as noonday by the blaze of burning ships. He might have escaped, finally, if he had