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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
s thy life; The last receives, defends, and gives thee being. Them.--Whoe'er defends me, I was born at Athens, And 'tis by nature's instinct that we cherish Our dear paternal seats. In forest glooms. The savage beasts still love their native caves. Xer.--Then Athens still remains The mistress of thy heart? But what in her Can still Themistocles so highly prize? Them.--all, sovereign lord ! The ashes of our fathers; The sacred laws, the tutelary Gods, The language, manners, my repeated toils For her endured; the honors heaped upon me; The very air, the trees, the soil, the walls. Can any man read this outburst of patriotism and nature, and not shudder to think of the contrast which Winfield Scott presents, at the Court of the Lincoln despotism, which he is aiding with every nerve of his soul and body to chastise and devastate the land which gave him birth, and which has never tired in heaping honors upon his head?
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $50 reward (search)
The Great Boaster. A Northern dispatch says: "Gen. Scott boasts that the evacuation of Harper's Ferry is in perfect accordance with his plans, and that no Southern movement will, in the slightest degree, affect his programme." Gen. Scott "boasts" somewhat too much for a man of action. "Let not him that putteth on histhe words of inspiration are not beneath the notice of even so great a man as Gen. Scott. It is obvious, however, that the "great captain of the age" is making the cin and Wellington were mere children in the art of war compared with Win(g)field Scott. There is no one in his immediate neighborhood that can disprove that propositis. The evacuation of Harper's Ferry is, therefore, "in perfect accordance with Scott's plans, and no Southern movement will, in the slightest degree, affect his programme." Oh, far-secing and omnipotent Scott! Was it in "accordance with your plans" that the Star of the West was sent to Charleston and came back as she went? Tha
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
he National Intelligencer, more candid and ingenuous, announces a loss of two hundred, the reason why the Government was anxious to tell its own story first is obvious. The Associated Press dispatch gives the official report, addressed to Gen. Scott by Brigadier General Schenck: Left camp with 668 rank and file, including 29 field and company officers, in pursuance of General McDowell's orders to go upon this expedition with all the available force of one of my regiments. The re side of the river, about a mile and three quarters from us.--These are mostly visible around a defensive work they have thrown up evidently to command the roads leading from the Ferry here to Leesburg and Drainsville.--Cor. Wash. Star. General Scott's plan. Here is something interesting from the Washington correspondence of the New York Tribune. Our military officers should make a note of it: Everything is in the best condition for an advance to Richmond, for which the prepara