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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Gutting houses. (search)
Gutting houses. According to Worcester the word "gut," verb active, is defined "1. To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to draw; to exenterate; as 'to gut a fish.' 2. To plunder of its contents. "A troop of cut-throat guards were sent to seize The rich men's goods, and gut their palaces" Dryden This definition applies forcibly to the Yankee practice in this war, in the matter of houses. Toney Lumpkin, a well known shrewd observer, was of opinion that the "inside of a letter was the cream" of it. The Yankee, equally shrewd as to the main point of the value of a thing, is clearly of opinion that the inside of a house is the most important part, the very cream of that also. So he takes possession of that part of it the moment he reaches it. He takes out the bowels of it; eviscerates, draws, and exenterates it he plunders it, and generally, after Dryden's account, with a band of "cut-throats." There is no part of the war which is so agreeable to the Yanke
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nited States Executive. What a contrast does it present to the State papers and Presidential communications of former times in the Federal Union! What are the "facts" that make the "position" "pertinent" and "applicable." The war with the South, every Government, as well as every individual, knows was the main one Suppose that ended, would that be sufficient to justify an interruption of the cosy relations at present existing between France and the Federal imperial Government? Why, as Toney Lumpkin would say, "that is as thereafter may be!"If there be "a concatenation accordingly,". why the entente cordials will be abandoned; if not, then it will be continued as long as "facts" make it "pertinent." In the meantime this palaver is very good for the people, for the Baltimore Convention, and for Congress. Louis Napoleon is too sagacious to be deceived by it. He understands the Yankee Government very well.--He is content to take advantage of their inability to do him an injury now, an