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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Enlistments in Ireland for the Federals--interesting letters. (search)
ally repulsed when four fifths of its number lay in front of the bloody parapets from which belched forth the converging fire of our victorious artillery. In the reply of his Holiness, Plus IX., to the letter of Mr. Jefferson Davis, (which appeared in the public journals,) the Sovereign Pontiff thus proves himself, my Lord, the worthy apostle of Him who taught "peace on earth and good will towards men." He says, "it is particularly agreeable to us to see that you, illustrious and honorable President, and your people, are animated with the same desires of peace and tranquility which we have in our letters inculcated upon our venerable brothers. May it please God, at the same time, to make the other peoples of America and their rulers, reflecting seriously how terrible is civil war, and what calamities it engenders, listen to the inspirations of a calmer spirit, and adopt resolutely the part of peace"--Such are the sentiments of his Holiness, and such ought to be the feelings of a