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The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
to be subjugated by any government under heaven, could it ever consent to be subjugated by such "servants of servants and slaves of the devil," as the Lincoln dynasty! These donkeys, spring the king of beasts, and trying to scare us with their terrific bray, are they to be our masters? Have we survived two conflicts with the genuine lion, defeat and even destruction by whom would have been no dishonor, to be kicked to death by an ass in a lion's skin? It is enough to make Paul Jones, Truxton, Hinman, Hull, Perry, and McDonough, rise from their graves; to call from the depths of the sea, the bones of those bold seatings, whose keels the ocean was once proud to bear, to witness such degradation.--Not one of them was capable of such an outrage as that upon the Trent; but, if it had been committed, the man among them who had not thrown up his commission if his Government had refused, in the language of the London Times, to "fight his way out of the difficulty," would have been a sh