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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Jomini and his career. (search)
apitulation of Dupont Baylen, in 1808, Napoleon determined to direct person the military operations in Spain, and Jomin was assigned to duty on the staff of Berthier; but rather than serve under one who had always been his enemy, be tendered his resignation, intending then to enter the service of the Emperor of Russia. But Napoleon refused to allow him to leave the service, and placed him on special duty in Paris, to enable him to write the history of the campaigns in Italy. When the war of 1812, between France and Russia, broke out, Jomini, not wishing to fight against the Emperor Alexander, who had offered him a high position in the Russian army, asked the pacific position of governor of a province, and was assigned to the governorship of Wilma. He was afterwards sent to replace General Barbanegre in the government of Smolensk, and rendered most valuable assistance to Napoleon in the retreat from Moscow, especially in the passage of the Baresina, at which place he was ordered to s
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Servants Wanted. (search)
which they were then associated restored to the owners slaves abducted by the British forces and subsequently recaptured by the American armies. In the war of 1812 with Great Britain, the course pursued by the United States Government was the same, and it recognized the right of the owner to slaves recaptured from the enemy. the latter power insisted upon, and ultimately secured by treaty, pecuniary indemnity from the British Government for slaves taken by its forces during the war of 1812. And it is supposed that a negro belonging to a citizen of a State in which slavery is recognized, and which is regarded as one of the United States, were to escape into the Confederate States, or be captured or abducted by their armies, the legal right of the owner to reclaim him would be as clear now as in 1812, the Constitution of the United States being unchanged in this particular, and that instrument having been interpreted in the judicial decisions, legislative and diplomatic ac
The Daily Dispatch: November 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
sound of cannon. The crowd in part proceeded to the residence of Secretary Seward, who, in the course of his remarks, said he came on the stage of action some years after the Revolutionary war, and used to hear his parents talk about the vast number of tories who were opposed to the war; and what surprised him was, that after twenty-five or thirty years there was not a tory found in the United States. He could not exactly understand where they had gone to. [Laughter.] During the war of 1812 the Federalists used to carry the intervening elections just as the Democrats carried the election in New York in 1862, but when the war came to a close, and ended in victory, we had the era of good feeling, and from that time till now we cannot find an old Federalist. His judgment was, when we all came together, and when the stars and stripes again wave over Richmond, in two or three years you will have to look mighty sharp to find a secessionist or a rebel sympathizer. [Laughter and appla
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s a standing maxim of Great Britain, in international affairs, that what England has done cannot be wrong. Her great history man, Smith, --he who lectures on history-- we know not what his name is besides Smith — has, of late, openly proclaimed that doctrine, long practiced on by the Government. Smith justifies the atrocious crime of exciting negroes to insurrection by the somewhat English argument that Sir Charles Napier recommended it, and intended to have put it in practice in the war of 1812. Of course, then, Seward has no difficulty in shutting the mouth of Russell, if he dare open it — which we doubt — by showing that he has English precedent for his support.--The act was so much the more rascally that Genoa was unable to help herself. That circumstance the Yankees will consider only a proof of "smartness".--a proof that the English had "cut their eye-teeth, " to use their own elegant and expressive phraseology, and it will render the act only so much the more admirable in th<
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], The pedigree of the Lee family. (search)
rles, Richard Bland, Theodoric and Edmund; also, Mary, Lucy and Anne. General Henry Lee married twice; first, with Matilda, daughter of Philip Ludwell Lee, by whom he had a son (Henry) and a daughter (Lucy); and afterwards with Ann, daughter of Charles Carter, of Shirley, by whom he had three sons Charles Carter, Robert Edmund and Sidney Smith, and two daughters, Ann and Mildred. General Henry Lee resided at Stratford. Henry Lee, the son of the first wife, was a major in the war of 1812, and wrote the "Strictures on the Writings of Jefferson"; also, a Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Sidney Smith Lee was a commodore in the old United States navy, and is now chief of the Bureau of Orders and Detail, Navy Department, in Richmond. He commanded at Drewry's Bluff for a long time. Robert Edmund Lee is at Petersburg — the General Lee of this day. He married Miss Custis, of Arlington, in Alexandria county, the daughter and heiress of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted so
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
after captured. He stated that he would sign any cartel which was based upon principles of entire equality; and he proposed that exchanges should take place according to the date of capture; first, however, exhausting the list of officers; the scale of equivalents to be any one which we might present which would operate equally; for instance, the one exhibited to him by General Wool at a conference between them, and which was taken from a cartel between the United States and Great Britain in 1812; the exchanged persons to be conveyed by the captors at the captors' expense to some point of delivery convenient to the other party; the rule of exchange to operate uniformly without any right of reservation or exception in any particular case. "He expressed ignorance of any complaint against this Government in any matter of exchanging prisoners, and pledged himself for the removal of any cause of complaint upon representation being made. He suggested the propriety of releasing u
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ocial, political and physical evils which, in such a country, menace its existence; how is a ruinous explosion from the forces generated by its own order and energy to be avoided, if the outlets of commerce and emigration are closed up? These considerations lead us to doubt decidedly the report that the British Government seriously contemplates the relinquishment of Canada. Its population is as loyal as any in the world. Its invasion by the Americans in the war of the Revolution and in 1812 resulted only in failure. If America is stronger for aggression now than formerly, Great Britain is also stronger for defence. We think another report is much more likely to be true — namely, that the British Government is employing thirty thousand laborers in constructing an extensive system of fortifications in Canada. The experience of its own efforts to wrest Canada from the French must have satisfied the British Government of the importance of such a system to the preservation of the
The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
h are inscribed the names of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In the centre of the card below is the blank form of invitation, and the list of managers subscribed thereto. "Upon either side of the centre piece are two pillars standing upon a base of three steps. The base represents stone, and the three steps are intended to represent the three great struggles of our nation for existence: the Revolution, the lower one, inscribed with the figures '1777-83' the war with Great Britain, '1812-15'; and the present war, '1860-65.' Upon these steps are granite pedestals of rough rock, upon which are erected columns of fasces, strongly bound together with cords, representing the columns of the masses of the people supporting the government of the country. The right-hand column is surmounted by the American eagle, destroying a serpent. The National pendant is entwined about this shaft. Upon the other column is also an eagle, grasping in her talons the usual insignia of the arrows an
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], The late Mr. Corwin. (search)
higan Congressman that on the next day Mr. John Quincy Adams alluded to him as "the late Mr. Crary," which excited the irrepressible laughter of the whole House. Mr. Corwin belonged to that powerful party of Whigs which struggled so long against the Jackson Administration and the successive Democratic dynasties; but which finally, from motives of mere policy, permitted itself to be merged in the Republican party, and thus brought on the bloody conflict, which, had it remained fast and firm to its own old Whig flag, it might have averted — at least for long years to come. He was bitterly opposed to the Mexican war of 1848, and was the leader of the opposition to it. Mr. Corwin was raised a farmer, and is said to have been a wagoner in 1812. On his return from Mexico, with his naturally dark skin considerably bronzed, he was introduced to an English gentleman as an "Ohioan."The Englishman shook him by the hand, and inquired "whether his tribe were at peace with the whites?"
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Beating a Woman. (search)
Deceased. --Rhesa-Allen, a venerable citizen of Shenandoah county, Va., died on the 7th instant. He was one of those recently pardoned by the President as belonging to the 20,000 class. He participated in the war of 1812, particularly at Crany Island.
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