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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the present day turns up its nose at the New York of fifty years ago, but in nothing except mere numbers does it deserve to be named in the same century. Even that material wealth and power which it so exultingly contrasts with the simplicity and plainness of a former era, are but the products of the wisdom and energy of the leading men of that very era which they so much despise. Where are the Ds Witt Climton and Daniel D. Tompkins among their statesmen. Where is the Bishop Robert or Dr. John Mason among their clergymen? Where are the Alexander Hamilton, the Robert Emmetts, the Aaron Buers, the Kents, the Van Nesses, Van Rensellaers, Grosvenor, Livingston, Hoffman, &c., at their bars? Where is their Robert Fulton? These are the men who once gave tone and character to New York society, and who laid the foundation of that Alps of greatness on which the pigmies of the present day stride with such a conceited smirk, and look down with so many lofty airs upon better people than themse
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Senator Mason a steamer out Secessionist. --A letter from Senator Mason, in a letter to a gentleman of Winchester, Va., under date of Saturday last, says: In this condition of things, Virginia can be neither neutral or passive. The first act of the Legislature about to meet, I trust will be to call a Convention; and the fiercest of the Convention, to resume all the sovereign power of the State by secession, Senator Mason a steamer out Secessionist. --A letter from Senator Mason, in a letter to a gentleman of Winchester, Va., under date of Saturday last, says: In this condition of things, Virginia can be neither neutral or passive. The first act of the Legislature about to meet, I trust will be to call a Convention; and the fiercest of the Convention, to resume all the sovereign power of the State by secession,