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The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wednesday, March 13, 1861. (search)
ting subject under consideration, but he would attempt it under an impulse of duty. Called from the quiet and comfort of his home, to meet the fearful crisis impending over the country, he would not now shrink from the labor imposed upon him. After a brief allusion to the part he had taken in the Government of the country, and the emotion with which he had heard in his retirement of the tearing asunder of the beautiful flag which had so long waved in triumph, he spoke of the last words of Washington in warning his countrymen against the formation of sectional parties, which had been disregarded by the abolitionists, and the cloud, at first no bigger than a man's hand, now overshadowed us with gloom.-- The politicians took hold of it, and had succeeded in cutting the ship of State loose from her moorings, and now the fragments were floating in an angry sea, He mourned over it; and when the Legislature called upon him to participate in proceedings for the restoration of the Union, he di
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], New Orleans against St. Louis. (search)
New Orleans against St. Louis. --The St. Louis merchants complain of the policy of Louisiana in competing the payment of duties on foreign goods to that State, while the collector of St. Louis has instructions from Washington that duties collected by the State of Louisiana, at New Orleans, will not be recognized by the General Government.
The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Ordinance of transfer passed by Alabama. (search)
Weems' Life of Washington and Life of Marion. We took occasion, yesterday, while alluding to the literary achievements of General Lee, to remark that very few Virginians had written books that a man can read through.-- There are not many, we presume, who will dispute this proposition. We had great political writers in the olden time, but there are not many who care to read their works from title page to colophon. Of the few Virginia written books which we can read with unwearied interest, we are not ashamed to confess that the Life of Washington, by Mason L. Weems, and the Life of Marion, by the same author, are among our favorites.--People tell us of books for children, and they give us books full of baby-talk. The child, we believe, by the time he learns to read, has no taste for any such books. He likes something stirring — something animated-- something full of action — it may be the action of grown men or giants, but not of children. When the boy gets beyond the nursery