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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Jackson's army. (search)
Too much speed. --If Dr. Franklin, or his respectable spectre in spectacles, should walk the streets of Richmond at this day, he or it (in allusion to the spectre) would see enough to awaken a suspicion in a philosophic mind that too much speed is one of the great faults of the present age. In spite of all laws, martial and otherwise to the contrary, all sorts of vehicles are sometimes driven along with dangerous precipitation. Especially is this the case with horses ridden by parties disguised in dragoon and other habiliments. To cross some of our thoroughfares requires almost as much courage and intrepidity as a trip to California, or a balloon ascension, or popping the question to an elderly virgin or a young widow, or any other dangerous experiment. They who are mounted on horseback or in vehicles, and are thus raised above the level of lowly pedestrianism, often seem rather more anxious than otherwise to distinguish themselves by demolishing a few of those crawling human