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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Tennessee. (search)
or the world aggravate such horrors.-- So, with a breaking heart and a funereal countenance, he hands a revolver to one and a bowie-knife to the other, and as each loses his weapon, charitably supplies another in its place. This is the only kind of intervention the exemplary old soul can venture on; and he calls upon both to bear witness how carefully he avoids taking any part in their quarrel. If the passions of both were not at fever heat, they never could have failed to understand John Bull's neutrality. Both, at last, are beginning to discover the true state of the case; and though the discovery can have no effect in terminating the quarrel, it may at least assure the old hypocrite that he is understood on this continent, and that the day is coming when his policy will prove as short-sighted as it is malevolent. Of the sentiment of the United States he has seen enough to need no information from that quarter. As to us, we regard the British Government as our enemy, our wo