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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
e records of the Navy.--Why should it remain, when the farewell counsels of Washington are forgotten? Why should it, or the Army, exist, when the noblest work of our forefathers, the Union, is perishing? Why should we cling to the external glories of our political Temple, when its mystic vell of Devotion and Charity has been rent in twain, and the chosen people are ready to imbrue their hands in each other's blood, and the solemn voices of our National gods — of Washington, Jefferson, Madison Marshall --seem to whisper through the listening midnight air, "Let us depart hence?" Commodore Kearney, whose resignation is probably only "the beginning of the end," is not a Southern man, but having served on the Southern coast in the wars of 1812 and 1815, and having been long intimate with Southern people, he is reluctant to take a hostile position against them. The Northern officers of the Navy, as well as their Southern comrades, are almost universally gentlemen of the most national