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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
cumstances, their parents ought not to punish them with too much severity, nor send them back to England by the next packet. Youth is the season of rash, generous and disinterested impulses. A boy always has his head full of fighting and fair play, and it is more than you can expect of juvenile human nature to keep its eyes on a book and be amusing itself with dead languages when it sees its own house set on fire and the red blood of its own brothers and sisters staining the threshold. Sidney Smith once declared that boys ought to be put under a barrel and kept there from fourteen to twenty-one, as the only mode of keeping them out of mischief. We certainly cannot expect boys to act like men. Besides, the army is, after all, a very good school for Confederate boys. They can learn there what will be more useful to them hereafter, and to mankind, than all they can acquire at the best classical schools. There is no teacher of grammar in England who can convey to them, for example, t
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
h alternate year was taken up and passed. Under the call of States, the following were introduced: By Mr. Barksdale: Resolutions passed by Humphrey's and Davis's brigades of Mississippi troops in favor of enlisting negro troops to aid in achieving the independence of the country. Ordered to be printed. By Mr. Holder, of Mississippi: A resolution looking to the extension of the law authorizing appointments to temporary vacancies to all field and line offices. Adopted. By Mr. Smith: A bill to secure the right of transfer allowed to soldiers by law, and to punish those who withhold such transfers. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Also, a resolution calling on the President for information relative to the arrest for Dr. H. B. Ritter, of Edenton, North Carolina. Adopted. Mr. J. T. Leach, of North Carolina, presented resolutions condemning the views expressed by Mr. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State, in the speech delivered by him in this city on