hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: may 8, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for France (France) or search for France (France) in all documents.
Your search returned 3 results in 3 document sections:
From Washington. Alexandria, May 7.
--Seward's instructions to W. L. Dayton, Minister to France, are peremptory, and opposed to the recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
The Administration has determined to wage civil war upon the South.
Large quantities of ammunition, supplies and troops are passing up to Washington in ships.
The Daily Dispatch: may 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Terrible tragedy at Marietta, Ohio . (search)
Rejoicing in Civil War.
The New York Courier des Etats Unis is annoyed at the character of the excitement in New York:
"In looking at the almost joyous character of the excitement of the masses, no one would suspect that it was occasioned by a civil war destined to drown the ancient and common nationality in the blood of men who were till now considered brethren.--We have witnessed black hours in France, where the people of one country were condemned to fight each other, but never have we beheld anything like that which is occurring here.
There, the struggle was accepted as inevitable, but at the same time lamentable, and a terrible necessity.
Here it is a holiday aspect that prevails."
The reason is that New York expects to inflict civil war upon others, not to suffer itself.
Were New York itself in danger, there would be no "holiday aspect" in that city.
A more striking illustration of human selfishness and corruption the world has never witnessed.
Of all the