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The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death by Drowning. (search)
at woman deems Union right, and that it is man's duty to support her. While Col. Baldwin was making an eloquent reply, somebody in the gallery trod on a dog's appendage, and the fierce "bow wow — ki yi," for a time completely eclipsed the oratorical peroration to the stripes and stars. Another incident on Saturday transpired while Mr. Bruce, of Halifax, was making an argument in favor of secession. A troop of horsemen from Chesterfield passed by the building, the trumpeter blowing "Yankee Doodle" with all his might and main, which created some merriment on the Union side, but produced no visible effect elsewhere. The ladies "never tire" of going to the Convention. They remain with remarkable patience throughout the long sessions, and if any of them happen to lose a veil, or any other article of apparel or adornment, a good excuse is furnished for going back next day to look for it. We predict that, as evening sessions are to be held hereafter, the fair daughters of Richmon
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Marrying Cousins. (search)
ioner, that Dixie's Land has become the "National Anthem of Secession?" That it is called for in Southern Theatres, and received with cheers and applause, while Hail Columbia and the Star Spangled Banner are hissed down? What though it was composed by a Northern man? Did not Baptiste Lulli compose "God save the King," in honor of Louis the Fourteenth, and was not that splendid Anthem stolen, re-arranged, and anglicised for the glorification of "Great George, our King," by Handel? Why, Yankee Doodle itself was written, air and words, by a surgeon in the British army, during the Revolution, to express his supreme contempt for the Americans. But the Yankees captured the tune and aggravated the mortification of their baffled oppressors by playing it to them — reminding them that their defeat was sustained at the hands of an enemy whom they had contemptuously derided. Dixie's Land, then, belongs to the South by right of seizure, as do the forts, the arsenals, the mints, taken from the