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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
he monster Collot d'herbois, the worst of all the demons of the French Revolution, had at one time been an actor, and been hissed from the stage at Lyons.--When he became a revolutionary commissioner he visited that city with a heart on fire with vengeance for the wound which had been inflicted on his vanity. Of all men he who is at once thoroughly a coward, and thoroughly vain, is the most bloody and the most remorseless. The ex-actor murdered thousands of women, children, and old men, in Lyons, and commenced destroying the city itself, house by house, having determined to raze it all to the ground. Such a character, precisely, is Butler. President Davis, with the applause of the whole world, has inflicted upon his vanity a wound which could not be healed by the murder of every human being in the Confederacy. --He feels that he must go down to posterity as the Monster, above all other Monsters of this war, and his burning heart, and mortified vanity impel him to merit the distinc
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Credit. (search)
Trial of Forde. --In Judge Lyons's Court yesterday the preliminary steps to the examination of Robert S. Forde, for the murder of Mr. Dixon, Clerk of the House of Representatives, in April last, occupied the whole day. The counsel for the prisoner moved to quash the indictment upon the ground that the prisoner had not been properly examined in the first place. Mr. Sanxay, who acted as Coroner at the inquest, having been one of the Justices of the Examining Court which sent Forde on for trial, said examination was therefore invalid, inasmuch as he (Sanxay) had no right to act as a committing magistrate and as a Coroner also.--The Commonwealth's Attorney contended that Sanxay merely acted as Coroner, and not as a Justice of the Peace, and that, therefore, he did not make the commitment, but that said commitment was made by the Mayor.--When acting as Coroner, Sanxay had no more right to commit than any other Coroner.--At the conclusion of the argument on both sides, the Judge desi