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The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Northern Jubilations. (search)
section. When the South gained the great victory of Manassas and a dozen others, against odds of five to one, it never illuminated a single town nor fired a solitary salute, though those victories were achieved in defence of its soil and of its liberties. Its moderation in the hour of triumph was as signal as its valor in the field. We envy not the character which can lose its balance and rush into a delirium of delight because fifteen thousand men have defeated twenty-five hundred at Roanoke Island, and eighty thousand have proved too strong for fifteen thousand at Fort Donelson. Especially is such exultation over the fall of a weaker foe unseemly and preposterous when it is exhibited by those who have just humiliated themselves to the dust of the earth before the British Lion. They tore two Southern Commissioners from the deck of a merchant vessel in the belief that England would not resent it, threatening that if she did they would overrun and annex Canada in six weeks; and the
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], The production of saltpetre — something for every man to do. (search)
decoy him by his fascinations. The moment the little animal meats the glance of the boa's eyes, and pauses to look at them, his fate is sealed.--He gambols a little, recedes, and advances, ever diminishing the previous space between himself and his fate upon each return, until he is seized and wrapped in the folds of the monster whose spells he was powerless to resist. The Northern serpent who has penetrated the Southern Even, attempts his natural arts.--At Hatteres, and Nashville, and Roanoke Island he shows his brightest hues and assumes his quietest and most innocent sirs. He proposes to harm no one--to disturb nobody's private rights — and only to restore quiet and security to the land — Were we simple and irrational like the little red deer, we must naturally fall a prey to his natural arts. But can be decoy Southern people by such duplicity, such cherming. Are they to forget the burning houses, the confiscated property, the stolen and liberated servants of Southern people ?