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Our Government a Despotism!

The gallant Col. Corcoran, who surrendered himself a prisoner of war with so much-heroism at Manassas, tells the Yankees be can assure them, from his own experience, that our Government ‘" is a despotism."’ The experience of the Colonel is limited. He was confined in a dungeon all the time he was here. Every malefactor in similar straits no doubt, thinks the same of the Government that confines him in jail, and so far as his own experience goes, thinks correctly. ‘"Pat,"’ said a gentleman to his Irish servant, ‘"get up and see what sort of weather it is."’ Pat gets up, instead of going to the window pokes his nose into a cheese press and returning, answers, ‘"Plaze yer honor, it's dark, and smells like chaize"’ (cheese)

The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 30, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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