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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 28: (search)
e averse to shaking the smallest particle of the settlement at the revolution, were to merge themselves in the new tory or conservative party: the rest adopted the principle of reform; and when they began to govern, it was with the principles of Chatham and Shelburne. For the moment, Fox, who was already brooding on a coalition with the ministry so lately overthrown, insisted with his friends that Lord Shelburne was as fully devoted to the court as Lord North in his worst days. But the latterfor the distance of forty miles. On our way, I catched a commissary from Salisbury and delivered him up to some of my men whom he had treated ill when prisoners, and they immediately hung him. On the eighteenth of April, I set out for April 18. Chatham, where I learned that a wedding was to be that day. We surrounded the house, and drove all out one by one. I found one concealed upstairs. Having my pistols in my hand, I discharged them both at his breast; he fell, and that night expired.
The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1860., [Electronic resource], Heenan again after the "Champion of England." (search)
The Austerities of Canadian Politics. --The Hamilton Spectator says the opponents of Sir Allan MacNab actually tied a piece of black crape to the door of the hotel where he was staying at Chatham, and placed a label above it announcing his death.
The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from California. (search)
The effects of frost on Iron. --A Montreal paper relates an incident that occurred a few days since, at the Chatham station of the London, Chatham and Dover railway, which illustrates in a singular manner the astonishing effects of severe frost upon metal. A signal man attempted to lift a large and powerful lever, used for working a signal, when it snapped in two like a pipe stem. The bar was of wrought iron, 2 1/2 inches in thickness, while its weight was only a few pounds less than one hundred weight. The point at which the fracture occurred showed the iron to be of very good quality, and no indication of a flaw could be detected.
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Twenty dollars reward. (search)
led over by a sectional despotism," it is denounced as high treason. How long will it be before a people who are thus intimidated from giving utterance to their thoughts, will cease to think at all, and become the ready slaves of any aspiring military genius who may seek to grasp a crown? What wonderful progress must liberty and the right of free discussion have made in that section which is eternally boasting of progress and freedom, when, even as long ago as the American Revolution, Chatham, standing in the midst of a British Parliament, could, without molestation, aver the same principle for which, at this day, a Northern citizen must be branded with treason. He could exclaim, in the midst of a war, not as unjust and abominable as that which the North is now waging against the South, "If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, so long as a hostile foot trod upon the shores of my country, I would never lay down my arms — never, never, never." If the subject of a monarchy c
The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hay. (search)
vernment which that often misruled empire ever knew before, and by a King who, although endowed with some few good qualities as a ruler, was yet, on the whole, one of the worst Kings and one of the worst men who ever sat upon a throne. The quarrel of the colonies was with the King and his Government. It was not with the people of Britain. The policy of the Government towards them had always been narrow and injurious; and now it had begun to be tyrannical. Under great statesmen, like Chatham, under less arbitrary kings, like the first monarchs of the House of Hanover, whose interests impelled them to conciliation; and during the pressure of the great wars that had taxed the energies of the Empire, the colonies complained but little of the policy of the home government; but when the government fall into such hands as the Graftons, Rockinghams and Norths; when peace had succeeded to war; when the violent temper of George III., which was the beginning of his insanity, began to w
The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], West Pointers in the two armies. (search)
ket is greatly excited. Hemp is considerably higher. Small-pox among the sheep, in Wiltshire, was making further progress. An official order from the Councils prohibits the removal of any sheep or lambs from the infected districts, and make other provisions to check the disease. It is stated that the great reductions which have commenced in the Woolwich arsenal will amount to six thousand persons. The iron cased iron frigate Royal Oak, carrying 34 guns, had been launched at Chatham. Italy. The statements in regard to Garibaldi's health continue to be conflicting. A Turin dispatch of the 10th instant says that the health of Garibaldi has improved; but other accounts say that his wounds are of a serious character. General Bixto writes from Genoas in regard to the statement that Garibaldi has been taken to an apartment specially prepared for him at Virginians. He shows that no proper preparations were made for the sufferer, and he denounces the Italian
The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Hen. Wm. C. Rives. (search)
Great as has been the amount of prejudice and delusion and bad feeling among the people of the North towards us, happily "reason has not fled to brutish breasts." Many of them now see that the present war is, almost without disguise, a war for the extermination or degradation of the white race by the installation of the blacks in virtual dominion over them, and in such a war they have no motive of sympathy or interest to engage them. Others, profiting, at last, of the sagacious lessons of Chatham, Burke, Fox, and that noble band of patriots and statesmen in England who manfully opposed the war upon the American Colonies from the start, begin to see that the triumph of lawless despotism over the independence of the South would be equally fatal to their remnant of constitutional liberty at home. From the operation of these and other causes the military, with the moral strength of the North in this contest, will go on decreasing, while ours will as certainly increase. On whatever
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], The sentiment in the United States. (search)
n the colonies could only be allayed, and their alienated attachment revived and fundamentally secured by placing them exactly on the footing they stood previous to the rebellion. If the men who now clamor for peace, and p if not granted, were traitors, so was Mr. Burke. The national life of the mother country was just as much endangered there by the existence of the rebellion, as it is now. And yet no man in England who had any reputation dared to charge Burke and such states men as Fox, Chatham, Pitt; Barre, Lutterell, Ponnall, and others who sustained his views, as traitors, disloyal to the State. He desired peace because it could have been had then without the dismemberment of the empire; for, as he foretold, a few more years of war and the peace would have to come, but with the loss of the very colonies to which the ministry had held on with such a death grip. "My proposition," said this bold commoner, "is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; but peace to be hunte
The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Interesting European news. (search)
al train from Paris, yesterday morning at one o'clock, and embarked immediately on board a special steamer, the Breeze, the last new mall steamship of the London, Chatham and Dover company. The Breeze against and wind, performed the voyage to Dover in two hours, a arrival at Dover their Imperial Highnesses proceeded to the Ship one hour and fifty minutes. The Archduke and Duchess were received at Dover and accompanied to London by Mr. J. S. Martin, the Superintendent of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company. The suite consisted of the Countess Zichy; the Countess Trolonich, the Baron Dupont, the Marquis Corlo the Count Luzow, and the Chovaland suite, left London this morning for Ostend. Their Imperial Highnesses were received at the Victoria Station by Mr. Forbes, the general manager of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company, and conducted to a special train which was in readiness. The train started at 9 o'clock; the journey to Dover was performed in one hour and f
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fatal railroad collision (search)
Fatal railroad collision --A fatal collision occurred on the North Carolina Railroad on sunday last, by which a lady was killed and some seven other passengers severely but not dangerously wounded. We learn from a passenger, who was on the train, that the hat of the conductor (Robinson) was blown off, and he stopped the train and backed it in search of his hat, declaring, in a pet, that he would have it if he had to stay all night to get it. In passing round a curve, a freight train ran into the passenger train and a terrible collision occurred. The lady killed was a Mis Alston, of Chatham, daughter of Mr. Hill, of Greensboro.' The conductor, seeing the mischief he had produced, broke for the woods, and has not since been seen.--Haleigh (N. C) Construction.
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