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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], H. W. Beecher. (search)
led the seat which is now desecrated by his occupancy of it? Are all the reports we have heard of his vulgar ignorance correct, and even more than correct? Has he read absolutely us history, not even so much as is contained in Weema's Life of Washington? Does he not know that Washington had with him a French army of seven thousand men, and was assisted by twenty-five French line-of-battle ships, when he captured Cornwallia at Yorktown? Does as not know that the Independence of America, previWashington had with him a French army of seven thousand men, and was assisted by twenty-five French line-of-battle ships, when he captured Cornwallia at Yorktown? Does as not know that the Independence of America, previously extremely precarious, was secured by an alliance with France, and her powerful co-operation with the American forces? But we know where he got that idea. Seward put it into his head, and Seward deserves the for thus imposing upon the ignorant credulity of his master. The tone assumed throughout is in ludicrous contrast with the ability to perform. He talks as though the whole country formerly constituting the United States were still at his feet. He intends to run a railroad from
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], H. W. Beecher. (search)
s; also some letters and secession shinplasters, found on the body of the officer. The party, not having any wagon with them, could not bring the bodies along, but yesterday a party of the regiment stationed at Camp Hamilton went out to the place of action, and finding that the enemy had not had courage enough to bring their dead comrades away, had them carried into camp and decently buried. How are Lincoln's Message is received in Washington. The following special dispatch from Washington, we take from the New York Times: The universal topic of conversation in Washington to-day is the President's message. Opinions about it differ as widely as do the partisan preferences of the people.--The ultra Abolition element in Congress is sorely disappointed by the utter failure of their efforts to engraft their principles either on the President's message of on any of the Secretaries' reports. This class of politicians declare the message to be tame and ineffective. On the o