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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Is the Czar our friend or enemy? (search)
inevitable Edward Everett comes forward in a letter to Bonner's New York Ledger to account for this sympathy, and to unravel and explain the diplomatic mysteries connected with it. Mr. Everett doubtless has some other objects in view. Sumner and Wilson, the ultra abolitionists, of Boston, have shot far ahead of him of late years in political life. As violent an abolitionist as either of them, he long thought it most politic to take the conservative tack, and cultivate the favor of both South and North. Secession has left him high and dry in that path, and he now must "'bout face," and endeavor to outstrip Sumner and Wilson in the announcement of an extreme fanatical Northernism. He fancies himself, with probable truth, the best diplomatist in the whole North, imagines that his term in the State Department must come next after Seward's, and by way of attracting the attention of Lincoln's administration to himself, and of reminding the Northern public of his powers, airs his diplomac
The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
with shell and she practice on the Sickles Brigade on the Maryland side, and with ferrying over the Confederate marauders. This blockade causes anxiety. Billy Wilson's report of the Santa Rosa fight. Col. Billy Wilson, of the Zouaves, has written the following letters to his wife: Camp Brown, Fort Pickens, Sixth Col. Billy Wilson, of the Zouaves, has written the following letters to his wife: Camp Brown, Fort Pickens, Sixth Regiment N. Y. V., Oct. 11, 1861. Dear Wife: I am in a great hurry. We had a terrible attack two nights ago. Two thousand men came upon us at 3 o'clock in the morning. We, however turned out and gave them some fight. I had but two hundred men in camp at the time, and the rebels must have had at least two thousand; but the n fought good. The pickets fought like devils. We lost papers and everything. I got out buttoning my pints to receive them. Their war cry was, "No quarters to Wilson or his men." Your husband, Wm. Wilson. Camp Brown, near Fort Pickens, 6th Reg. N. Y. V., Oct. 15, 1861. Dear Wife: The steamer, I believe, will s