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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
, from which incalculable prosperity flowed to them and their descendants. It is no violent inference from the circumstances of the times, to aver that but for Washington, his commanding influence, and his great talents, Great Britain would never have been dispossessed of her hold upon the colonies. On the anniversary of the death of Washington, sixty-three years after that event, we find his countrymen engaged in a desperate struggle for existence, with these same Yankees, on the spot where repose the bones of his mother, and within so short a distance of Mount Vernon, that the roar of artillery may be easily heard. The very men whose liberties he presthe Yankee ruler in that city, protected by those very soldiers who sacrilegiously tore up and scattered the bones of his father. Who knows that the remains of Washington may not be desecrated in the same way? The Yankees are not too good for anything vile. They would, every man of them, dig up the coffins of their own parents,