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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
Our thanks are due to Mr. R. H. Fox, of the National Express, for late papers. Also to M. C. Dove, Esq., Potomac mail agent, for late Baltimore papers.
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
nals, or in self-defence from unjustifiable assaults, that it performs its office with greatest dignity and effect. Of various kinds of invective, one of the most effective is that which, with a smiling face, turns an opposite position into ridicule more completely than could be done by a grave argument. Thus it was by the dexterous use of this weapon that Lord North, who could lay claim to none of the impassioned declamation of his Whig opponents, kept his ground in debate. Burke and Fox once took him angrily to task, in the House of Commons, for calling, in a public document, the insurgent colonists by the name of rebels. "Very well," replied North, "if it will please you better, "I will call them gentlemen of the opposition, "over the water." Nothing could be more graceful than the manner in which Brougham, usually clumsy at satire, once gave the lie to an opponent. An imputation which Brougham had made upon Melbourne's government was flatly denied by the latter, and it wa