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The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], No cause for Despondency. (search)
his crew, had fallen — a momentary cessation of firing induced his adversary to hail him and inquire whether he had struck. "We have not yet begun to fight," was the laconic and pithy reply, and after two hours more of mortal combat, he had the proud satisfaction of walking the Englishman's deck, a victor under circumstances so desperate that at one time there appeared no chance of escape. Such is the reward of valor when allied to constancy and directed by an indomitable will Lincoln, Seward, Halleck, and the whole Yankee press, are hugging themselves in the delusion that they already see the end of the war, and that that end is, to us, the death of our liberty, and the beginning of an interminable servitude. To their taunts and sneers we reply, in the defiant language of Paul Jones, "We have not yet began to fight." --They think they have seen pitched fields, but the shortest of those they have seen are, to those which must come, but as the freshness of an April morning to the
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Blasphemy and Hypocrisy (search)
Blasphemy and Hypocrisy The short speech of Secretary Seward at the Yankee jollification in Washington, over the fall of Vicksburg, is the most shockingly hypocritical and blasphemous utterance that ever fell from the lips of man. He said he had "prayed that the cup of this war might pass from him, " but that his "Southern brethren" had forced it upon him. With a perfect recollection of the strenuous efforts Virginia made for peace; of the Commissioners sent by the Confederate Government to urge a peaceful separation, and of his own promise not to reinforce Fort Sumter, broken as soon as it was made, he has the horribly profane audacity to represent himself as a persecuted Saviour, praying that the bitter cup, forced upon him by his enemies, might pass from his lips! Can any cause prosper which thus outrages truth and insults God?