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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Grantley Berkeley and the Times. (search)
he democratic custom in England to say that America was based. In America there are no veterans or unattached officers of the regular army to lead the volunteers; in England we have them to any extent. The art of war was never studied by American amateurs; the American system ran entirely on trade. Volunteer generals and colonels kept hotels and edited depraved newspapers, and though the liberty of the press was once a transatlantic boast, it was found to be as empty a beast as taking Canada or whipping the world, putting an end to secession in a twelvemonth, &c., for it is on their mischievous and licentious press, that the President has made his most active war, and there only has the North come up to a given point of useful determination. To conclude this hasty reply to the vacillating and trimming humor of the Times, I can but remind my readers that even now, with the enormous mileage covered by the States in revolt, and the Northern army whipped, in the late reply to t
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Florida on a Frolic. (search)
truggle between Spain and her rebellious colonies finally died out, no attempt has been made to assert, by force of arms, the supremacy of the Old World over the New. We were, all of us, to say the truth, more or less converted to the doctrine of "manifest destiny." A new world had been called into existence, to redress the balance of the old; and so the old had, not unnaturally, felt itself disposed from any attempt to redress the new.--The colossal power of the United States, overshadowing Canada on the North and the States of the Gulf on the South, so clearly arranged to itself the disposition of all matters on the continent of America, that it seemed useless to interfere with the affairs of communities all destined, sooner or later, to absorption in the vast and growing Republic. If we wanted a convincing proof that the tide had turned, and that we were Entering on A Course of New and Unforeseen Events, we find it in the fact that the three powers who possess the coast of Europe i