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The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Southern secession movement. (search)
"Don't Tread on Me," is the motto inscribed on the Virginia rifles, manufactured at the State Armory in this city, and issued to the volunteers of Dinwiddie and other counties in 1808. Immediately under the inscription, which is on the stock of the rifle, is a figure of a rattlesnake, at full length. This old rifle, which carries a large ball, and has a flint lock, is said to be identical with the new English rifle, which is so highly approved in Europe. A more formidable weapon for service we have not seen, and it would be well for the Commissioners to examine and pass upon its merits, before leaving home in search of new arms. We were also shown by Capt. Dimmock, yesterday afternoon, one of the Cavalry Swords manufactured at the Virginia Armory, in this city, fifty years ago, which is almost an exact pattern, in every respect, of the government sword now in use. Strange as it may appear, here are two weapons of war, manufactured in the Old Dominion more than half a century
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
plete a service of about sixty years in the high offices of the government. He is, indeed, the patriarch of our statesmen, so far as length of official service is concerned. Martin Van Buren, while he has not been in office as long as some of our statesmen, is the only one who has filled the four highest, most dignified and powerful positions under the American Constitution. He has been Minister to England, Secretary of State, President and Vice President. His public life commenced in 1808, as Surrogate of Columbia county, New York, which he left for the State Senate, and then as Attorney General of the State, United States Senator, Governor, Minister to England, Secretary of State, Vice President and President. He was constantly before the people as an important personage down to his retirement from the Presidency in 1841, a period of thirty-three years. Perhaps we ought not to say that his public career then closed, for he was a prominent candidate for President before t
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 71 (search)
or on the application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing amendments, which, it either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by Congress; Provided. that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article: and that no State without its consent shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." Here, then, is the method pointed out by that great instrument to cement every State in the bonds of brotherhood. Here are the directions pointed out by the Father of his Country in his last moments. He (Mr. G.) had loved the Union, and if he could make it as it was designed to
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
sts; and where those were adverse, it would not go. South Carolina spurned the causes which were alleged here for a dissolution of the Union. The present secession movement was initiated in South Carolina, where they never lost a slave. South Carolina tells you frankly it is because of the "irrepressible conflict" between free and slave labor. The doctrine of the right of a State to secede originated in Massachusetts, the hot-bed of all the "isms," in 1807, because of the embargo. In 1808 the electors met in this city to east their votes for Madison as President, and one of the regular toasts at the electoral dinner was, "The Union of the States--the majority must govern--'tis treason to secede. " But the doctrine of secession was still agitated in the New England States, and the Richmond Enquirer held that it was treason to all intents and purposes. --Madison's letters were referred to as putting his heel upon the poisonous doctrine of secession. He alluded to the doctrines
The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
he Edinburgh Review, and the question was significantly asked, "If the Russians are such heroes, and beat the French so continually on all occasions, why did Napoleon obtain all the objects of the war, and why did the Russians always give way before him?" In the meantime, however, the peace of Tilsit destroyed all Sir Robert's hopes of smelling any more gunpowder in that part of Europe, and he forthwith removed his quarters to the Peninsula, where there was a very pretty prospect of a row. In 1808 he organized the Lusitanian legion, and engaged in innumerable conflicts with French detachments, but was finally routed, with almost the entire destruction of his force at Banos. He contrived to reorganize it, but it was never so effective as it had been before its defeat. In 1812 we find him at Constantinople, whence he was sent on a secret mission to the Emperor Alexander. This mission forms the subject of the posthumous book, the title of which stands at the head of this article. Its s
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
exercised against your friends; if, whilst your unarmed neighbor is trusting to your professions of peace and friendship you cover with this mantle of reticence an intention to fire his house and cut his throat, it becomes a quality not much to be reverenced. There has been but one man in the present century who has equalled Abraham Lincoln in the combined secretiveness, hypocrisy, and diabolism of his character.--The name of this man was Williams, and he flourished in London about the year 1808. --Whoever will read "Three Remarkable Murders," by De Quincey, will find the most mysterious and remorseless murderer of the nineteenth century the exact counterpart of Abraham Lincoln. This man was so civil in his demeanor that if, by chance, in passing through the street, the professional instrument which he carried under his cloak brushed against a passer-by, he would stop and apologize for the accident; and yet, so purely devilish in his heart that when he had silently entered a tavern i
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
le man, a French squadron of two seventy-fours, a frigate and a brig, assisted by a land attack of two hundred troops. The French lost fifty men. In 1806, a French battery on Cape Licosa, of only one gun and a garrison of twenty-five men, resisted, without the loss of a man, the attack of a British eighty-gun ship and two frigates, carrying in all over one hundred and fifty guns and about 1,300 men. The assailants lost 37 men killed and wounded, and the eighty-gun ship was much disabled. In 1808 a French land battery of only three guns, near Fort Trinidad, drove off an English seventy-four gunship and a bomb-vessel. In 1813 Leghorn, with weak defences and garrison, drove off an English squadron of six ships, carrying over three hundred guns and one thousand troops. In fact, the whole history of the wars of the French Revolution is one continued proof of the superiority of fortifications as a maritine frontier defence.--The sea-coast of France is only eighteen and a half miles from
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
imperiled, the people of the Southern States were driven by the conduct of the North to the adoption of some course of action to avert the danger with which they were openly menaced. With this view the Legislatures of the several States invited the people to select delegates to conventions to be held for the purpose of determining for themselves what measures were best adapted to meet so alarming a crisis in their history. Here it may be proper to observe that from a period as early as 1808 there had existed in all of the States of the Union a party, almost uninterruptedly in the majority, based upon the creed that each State was, in the last resort, the sole judge, as well of its wrongs as of the mode and measure of redress. Indeed, it is obvious, that under the law of nations, this principle is an axiom, as applied to the relations of independent sovereign States, such as those which had united themselves under the constitutional compact. The Democratic party of the United S
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
age of the General officers in Lincoln's army run as follows: Scott, aged 75; Wool, 73; Harney, 65; Mansfiled, 60; Totten, head of the Engineer Corps, 80; Thayer, Engineer, 80; Craig, head of the Ordnance Department, 76; Ripley, Ordnance, 70; Sumner, 65; Lawson, Surgeon General, 80; Larned, Paymaster General, 70; Gibson, Commissary General; Churchill, Inspector General; and Thomas, Adjutant General, are old men, having entered the army in the beginning of the present century — Gibson in 1808, and Churchill in 1812. On the other hand, remarks the Columbia Guardian, we find in the Army of the Confederate State Davis, Commander-in-Chief, a young man comparatively, and full of energy, vigor and fire; Beauregard, only between 40 and 50, in the full vigor of health; Lee, about 54 or 55; Bragg, active, vigorous and efficient, with others that might be named did we know their precise ages. In the physique of our officers, and in the materiel of their command, the Confederate State
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Prince Gortschakoff. (search)
Prince Gortschakoff. --Prince Gortschakoff, late Governor of Poland, whose death was announced by the steamer Arabia at Halifax, was born in 1792, served against the French in the campaigns of 1807 and 1812-16; against the Swedes in 1808-'9; and against the Turks in 1628-'29, when he led the Sieges of Shumia and Silistria; distinguished himself in the war of the Polish revolution (1831) at Grochow, Ostrotenka and the taking of War-saw. He was also with Prince Paskeviteh in the invasion of Hungary in 1849. In 1853 he received the command of the army of invasion sent to the Danubian principalities. In 1855 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Crimea, and greatly distinguished himself by his gallant defence of Sebastopol against the allied (French and English) forces. In 1856, after the death of Prince Paskevitch, he was appointed Governor of Poland by Alexander II., in the execution of whose conciliatory measures in regard to that country he was earnestly engaged up to th
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