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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Reported Death of Gens. McClellan and Sickles--capture of Winchester. (search)
y God for the late wonderful successes which He has vouchsafed to our cause, will be balled with satisfaction by the whole country. The Divine interposition in our behalf, which followed the players of a persecuted people, has been so evident and signal that none but the most hardened unbeliever can doubt, and none but the most callous heart be ungrateful. When we remember the enormous army that was lately encamped within four miles of our city and look upon the condition of that army now, well may we say. "This is God's work," and prostrate ourselves in thankful adoration before His throne. In the words of the warrior king of Israel, "if the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may we say, men would have swallowed us up quick, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us." Let us hope that there will be a general suspension of business on the day appointed by the President, and that one universal aspiration of praise and prayer will rise to Heaven from a delivered country.
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
le who are struggling to maintain the Union are losing all among themselves.--Unless some speedy change is effected, we may expect to see Pennsylvania and other single State treating separately for peace, and leaving New York to early on the war alone. The main cause of this profound demoralization is of course to be the want of any man with the qualities necessary is committed in such a and that want is as plainly due to the possibility of the Northern population. There is no King in Israel, and the reason is that American democracy cannot tolerate even the royalty of intellect. Mr. Disraeli on the War. On the 17th ult., Mr. Disraeli delivered a speech at an agricultural show at Buckingham, in which he made the following allusion to the war in America: It is impossible for us to consider the condition of the manufacturing population in the North of England at a moment when so ourselves are enjoying the great blessings which we now do, without feeling the convict
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Mr. Vallandigham's late speech. (search)
and sadness in every heart," and then asks the question, Can the union of the States be restored? How shall it be done? He answers in the affirmative, and goes on to show how. His speech on this branch of his hallucination is truly ludicrous and laughable. He labors to prove that the South cannot do without the North; that separated from her she would become as weak and contemptible as the Pamunkey Indians on the Eastern shore of Virginia. He says that the secession of the ten tribes of Israel is the only exception to the re-union of people who have separated "and their subsequent history is not encouraging to secession" --that is to the South. And now the way to re-union. What so easy? Stop fighting. Make an armistice, no formal treaty. Withdraw your army from the seceded States. Reduce both armies to a fair and peace establishment. Declare absolute free trade between the North and the South. Buy and sall. Agree upon a Zelvere in — Recall your fleets. Break up the block
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Farewell address of Lieut.-Gen'l Leonidas Polk. (search)
any way. It seems to have been so far as we can learn from contemporary history, anything but Divine; quite human, in fact, and very indifferent human, to say the least of it. That he may have been raised up for his present work is, however, among the possibilities. We have heard of another man, much Lincoln's superior in some respects, who was raised up for just such an enterprise as he is now engaged in. The name of his illustrious predecessor was Pharaoh, who would not let the people of Israel go, and kept on hardening his heart till he was utterly destroyed. "For this very cause," said the Almighty, "I have raised thee up," and if Lincoln has been raised up for anything, it is to accomplish a similar work. Commissioned by God to restore the Union! If it were possible to reason with a fanatic, we should like the lunatic Lincoln to inform us why he begun his Divinely-commissioned work of restoration by breaking the Union to pieces? Is it the Divine way of building up, to pul
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Richmond and Danville R R, Sup's office, Richmond, April 5, 1864. (search)
and ignoramus. Chase is open to the same objection as Seward. Lincoln alone harmonizes in himself all those qualities which are essential to a representative of average Americanism. He has no education beyond that of the common schools and the attorney's office, and is rich in those moral or immoral features which distinguish the genuine son of the Puritan from the rest of mankind. He is shrewd, energetic, shallow, cunning, selfish, egotistical, hard hearted, vulgar, hypocritical, and fanatical. Every one of these qualities he has manifested from the moment when he marched into Washington in a freight car until the American people would be false to their own instincts if they did not recognize him as their true representative man. We shall be greatly mistaken if Lincoln is not the re-elected candidate for the Presidency. It is perhaps as well for us that it should be so, as it was for the Jews, that Pharaoh should have been the King of Egypt at the time of Israel's deliverance.
The Daily Dispatch: May 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
which he said: "Never can I forget the banks of the Fulallee, and the bloody bed of that river, where 2,000 of our men fought 35,000 enemies! where, for three hours, the musket and the bayonet encountered the sword and the shield in mortal combat; for on that dreadful day no man spared a foc--we were too weak for mercy." In the Bible history of the Jewish people occur numerous examples and warnings of the dangers of false clemency. One of the most striking of these is the invasion of Israel by Benhadad, King of Syria. This Benhadad seems to have been as arrogant and boastful as a Yankee, and far superior in military power to the invaded country.--Indeed, his immense force rendered the idea of opposition ridiculous. The message he sent to the King of Israel, when he came before Samaria, was as audacious as the manifestoes of Lincoln and his Generals: "Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives, also, and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine. " The Israelite King, at firs
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
proposed to arrest the progress of this party were misinterpreted, and he fell under the odium which once attached to the name of disunionist. Nor was he altogether singular in his fate. Among other illustrious Southern men who fell under the same suspicion was the late John B. Floyd, the hereditary friend and confidant of Mr. Calhoun, and the man, of all others, who best comprehended his views and the ends which he proposed to accomplish. For, as it was said of old, "they are not all Israel that are of Israel;" so it was not every admirer, and even follower, of Mr. Calhoun who fully comprehended his principles. The reason of the failure is sufficiently obvious. The intellect of Mr. Calhoun was the most subtle, we are prone to believe, ever accorded to a human being, unless Aristotle and Hobbes may contest the palm with him. He possessed a rapidity of analysis that eluded the grasp and defied the attention of the most acute and most untiring listener. His speeches are all rem
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1865., [Electronic resource], A New year. (search)
the enemy than the last, and with an army as numerous and formidable as a year ago took the field.--We have, besides, a powerful element of strength in reserve, which can neutralise any additional accessions to the strength of the enemy. The disasters we have suffered have been the result of errors which we have reason to believe will never occur again. With the continued aid or that marvellous Providence which has hitherto interposed in our behalf almost as manifestly as for the people of Israel, and with a provident, sagacious and energetic employment of the resources at our command, the new year, which has begun in clouds, will and in sunshine, and the bow of approaching peace span the dark cloud of war. But, under Heaven, our whole future depends upon ourselves. The people and their representatives must be alike ready to make any and all sacrifices; not only of life, but of prejudices of every kind; of pride, property, and, if need be, of institutions, however cherished, if thei
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], Hotton's slang Dictionary. (search)
on all abroad again for its derivation. He refers to Chancer's "Country gnoffes, Bob, Dick and Hick," but there the word means simply knaves. If the editor had applied to any one of the Jew "fencers," whence some of the knowledge in this book is derived, he would have heard that gonnof is Hebrew for "a thief." Curiously enough, too, he defines "John" as an "old slang term for a coachman, or one fond of driving," but does not record the derivation of the burnt from that charactering king of Israel whom the watchman recognized by his furious dirving. Still worse, he suggests that "Go to Jericho!" "is probably derived from Johanum. He might as well have derived "Hey-Day!" from "Hades." He says of the American "Skedaddle": "The word is very fair Greek, the root being that of Skedanumi, to disperse, to retire tumultuously, and it was probably set afloat by some professor at Harvard." This is more than doubtful. On the Greek origin of "Lord," as applied to those who are vulgarly called
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
spond to the Old Dispensation. Richmond would be a new Jerusalem, and the James, which has proved such a hard road to travel, the Jordan. Jonathan, Ebenezer, Ephraim, Joshua, &c., might furnish designations for other rivers. The Blue Ridge, whose color remains loyal, would be the only object of inanimate nature that would preserve its ancient name. The New England theologians have discovered a resemblance between the Constitution of the American Union and that of the twelve tribes of Israel. We are unable to perceive the analogy. It is true that, in some respects, the sons of New England are the genuine children of Israel. The envy which led ten of them to conspire the death of the most virtuous of their number is a feature common to both and the general characteristics of the family, as described by Jacob, their father, on his death bed, are not unlike the Sons of the Pilgrims. The worship of the Golden Calf, the martyrdom of the best and wisest men, the whiteness of the s
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