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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Bella Mollita — soft war. (search)
on, and as such entitled to no more consideration than it may be politic to show them. A considerable portion of the white population of these States has forfeited its life. The returning supremacy of the laws in any other land would be followed by wholesale judicial executions, which by law written and by law common would be justified here. We are not aware that these criminals, after causing an amount of suffering which the agonized mind refuses to compute, are entitled to a sort of Jack Sheppard sympathy, though it come from no higher source than The Day Book newspaper. You may be reasonably sure, when you hear a man bewailing the wrongs of South Carolina, that he has no particular affection. for New York, though it may, by courtesy, call him a citizen. The time for soothing promises and carminative compromises was when such negotiation was possible. The patchers — up of peace had full swing-and what did they do? They talked morning and evening, in season and out of seaso
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, Mobs and education. (search)
ng held a session, addressed by the most hated of its speakers, expressing their opinions on slavery and the scene of the morning. The exact, literal truth is. that Mr. Richard S. Fay stole the Tremont Temple from those who had hired it. Let us hope he will pay his debts without going through court. Those men whom he fought can say they were never sued yet for any hall they had used; he cannot say as much to-day. Doubtless they intended to crush free speech; but do not let us dignify Jack Sheppard and Dickens's Fagin into Cromwells and Bonapartes. These mobocrats intended to be Cromwells. So did the two tailors who undertook to tear down the throne of George III., and issued the famous proclamation, We, the people of England. History does not record that they succeeded; neither did their imitators on the 3d of December. Still, these angry and misguided men incurred very grave responsibility. Stealing a hall is not very bad in men who hardly know what they are about. Violatin
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe (search)
eration. Every now and then a man would give out, and would be allowed to leave the ungrateful work. The midday meal, bread and soup, was served to the prisoners while we were still in attendance. To one or two, as a punishment for some misdemeanor, bread alone was given. Charles Dickens looked on, and presently said to Doctor Howe, My God! if a woman thinks her son may come to this, I don't blame her if she strangles him in infancy. At Newgate prison we were shown the fetters of Jack Sheppard and those of Dick Turpin. While we were on the premises the van arrived with fresh prisoners, and one of the officials appeared to jest with a young woman who had just been brought in, and who, it seemed, was already well known to the officers of justice. Dr. Howe did not fail to notice this with disapprobation. At one of the charity schools which we visited, Mr. Mann asked whether corporal punishment was used. Commonly, only this, said the master, calling up a little girl, and sn
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal attempt to break Prison. (search)
Three Pieces --"The Fire-Eater," "Jack Sheppard," and "Mr. and Mrs. Peter White,"--are on the Theatre bills for representation to-night, forming a combination of attraction hard to be resisted by play-goers.
The Daily Dispatch: February 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Rumored recapture. (search)
Rumored recapture. --The city Sergeant received, yesterday, a telegraphic dispatch from the Lynchburg police, to the effect that a half-grown aid, calling himself John Kelly, had been arrested there, and it was thought he was John Lipscomb, who escaped from the jail of this city a few weeks since. The Sergeant forwarded a description of our Richmond "Jack Sheppard."
The Daily Dispatch: September 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our correspondence. (search)
house of Mr. Cardozo, on the corner of Grace and 8th streets, Shockoe Hill, was burglariously entered by three men, who, being experienced in such work, left the doors and windows of the lower story all open to secure for themselves uninterrupted agrees in case they were discovered. They lighted the gas, and went up stairs into Mr. C.'s sleeping room, where they found his pantaloons, and took from his pockets two dollars in money. They also stole his gold watch and a gold-ring. Hearing the noise and seeing the light, Mr. C. arose and attempted to capture the scoundrels; but they ran down stairs, he following them, and, on gaining the lower floor, turned upon him and beat him over the head with some instrument, wounding him considerably, and compelling him to relinquish the hold he had upon one of them. They then made good their escape, though Mr. C. immediately called for the night-watch, and have not, at this writing, been arrested. Surely Jack Sheppard himself is in the city.
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Larceny. (search)
Larceny. --The negro Joe, slave of Jefferson Powers, of Charlottesville, was again before the Mayor yesterday, charged with stealing a lot of clothing from a negro woman, and received sentence of 30 lashes. Joe is achieving the reputation of a Jack Sheppard in a small way.
The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted — negroes.-- (search)
the notorious Captain Cleveland, with about twenty of his band of Jayhawker, entered the Union branch Bank and the Bank of Northrup & Co. of Kansas City, and took $850 from the former and $3,000 from the latter. It was fortunate for both banks that they had anticipated a robbery, and removed most of their money to a place of safety. It is high time this man was "modified" by somebody. He is certainly a desperate character. His exploit in high way robbery throw those of Deck Turpin or Jack Sheppard in the shade. With his small gang be does whatever he chooses without cholestanols. Eastions in Missouri--Federals retreating — Insurrection among the Indians. The following special dispatch to the Memphis Appeal contains the latest and most interesting news from Missouri: Des Auc, Nov. 30, 1861.--A gentleman arrived here yesterday evening, who left Gen. McCulloch's camp on the 20th inst. Hunter's command left Springfield about the 12th, accompanied by Lane and Monte
The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Soldiers' Rest. (search)
Comparative statement of the Inspection of Tobacco, at the different Warehouses in the city of Richmond, from the 1st October, 1860, to 1st December, 1861 and from the 1st October, 1861, to 1st December, 1861: Dec. 1, ' 60.Dec. 1, ' 61. Shockoe Warehouse1,7251,293 Public Warehouse1,226882 Seabrook's Warehouse656307 D. brell's Warehouse578162 Mayo's Warehouse776569 4,9603,213 8,219 Decrease1,767 Wm. Y, Sheppard, Prop'r Richmond Tobacco Exchange. Richmond, Dec. 1, 1861.
The Daily Dispatch: September 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Lee injured. (search)
y, was continued in jail for examination.--James Smithers, who had fallen into the hands of the police while disporting himself on Main street at variance with law and order, was admonished and let off.--James Coyle, a person of suspicious appearance, was arraigned for going into the watch making business in a manner forbidden by law and custom. The mode adopted by Mr. Coyle was by no means peculiar to himself, it being the old style adopted by enter prising individuals from the time of Jack Sheppard upwards. Possessing himself of an iron instrument known as a "jimmy," he had contrived by its skillful use to enter the domicil of Mr. Simon Brown, and finding a small stock in trade in the shape of four silver and two gold watches, he seized them and immediately decamped. Circumstances, however, pointed the finger of suspicion so strongly against the amatuer watchmaker, that he was pursued and the property recovered. It was worth $350, and would have been a pretty good haul if the op