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The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Convulsions in America. (search)
or celebrity may learn from these chronicles that no American need think himself too insignificant to figure in the annals of his country. The materials for history now in course of preparation. In speeches and newspapers, are equally authentic, and much more entertaining. The bulletin and telegrams are frequently as comic as anything in Punch. The sporting enterprises of Mr. Briggs are not more amusing than the military exhibitions of Jonathan. And the clever creation of Dickens--Mr. Jefferson Brick--who has been accepted as a caricature, proves to be a faithful and even flattering portrait of that most indefatigable of modern American fictionist, the War Correspondent. We admit that there is a serious and even tragic side to the aspect of American affairs, but it is not what commonly passes for such. It is not in the dissolution of a system that had become rotten and offensive while yet it preserved the appearance of life — not in the parades which Americans mistake for c