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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], Inspiring Examples of Heroism. (search)
in's beard." It is not, however, the conduct of this or that man, but of the whole English Government and people, that challenge the admiration and imitation of posterity. The preparations of the Spaniards were, for that day, of the most gigantic character. The Armada consisted of over 200 ships, some 25,000 soldiers, 3,450 sailors, 2,088 slaves, 2,630 pieces of ordnance, and immense naval and military stores. Besides these, the Prince of Porma had 30,000 picked troops ready to embark in Flanders, whilst Guise promised to march 12,000 men into Normandy, to be transported by the Armada to England. To meet the vast naval odds, there were in the English navy only thirty-four ships, carrying 6,225 men, besides 157 merchant ships, not one of which reached two hundred tons, and only sixteen, one hundred. It had been a vexed question with Elizabeth's advisers whether the main defence should be by land or sea.--But though they concluded to trust mainly to the ships, the land rose up in co
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Four candidates. (search)
em, and was enough to determine every one who had any timidity about him in voting for "the Government." It is true that Flanders cut this up a little; but he represented a part of the Government, and promised to protect those who went for him. --Money was lavishly used. One young creole was offered five hundred dollars to use his influence for Flanders, and it was not much. If it was as liberally disbursed elsewhere, the votes which Flanders got must have cost a very large sum. Let us loFlanders got must have cost a very large sum. Let us look at the men elected to fill the chief offices of the great State of Louisiana. Of Mr. Hahn little used be said; he is a man certainly not inferior in intellectual, acquirements and capacity to the average of Governors, but the fact that he has beeo voted for him, sotto voce, declare this; and the chief reason given why Mr. Durant and his friends insisted on running Flanders was that they did not believe that Hahn's abolitionism was more than skin deep. --Hahn, the people say, talks thus: "As
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
made their first campaigns. Alexander the Great was twenty; Hannibal, twenty-seven; the Great Conde, twenty-two; Charles XII, eighteen, at the opening of their several careers. There have been others, however, equally distinguished, who commenced later. Julius Cæsar was forty-two when he began to command in Gaul; Wellington was thirty-nine when he took command in Spain; Washington was forty-three when he took the American army in hand; Marlborough was fifty-three when he took command in Flanders; and General Lee was somewhere near the same age when he took the command of the Army of Northern Virginia. There is no general rule; but certeris paribus--talent and experience being equal, the younger the man the better for the service. What Grant will try next we cannot conceive, though we have no doubt General Lee understands perfectly well what he intends. Thus far his failures have been scandalous beyond belief. But for his navy he would be beaten out of his entrenchments and
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ral ideas and the fusion of social classes. The philosophical historian, Hallam, in classifying the periods and the causes of the deliverance of Europe, has ascribed one of the first degrees of progress to the introduction of woolen manufactures into Flauders, nearly six hundred years ago. This new dispensation of industry made that little district one of the wonders of the world, and attracted to it merchants from all the kingdoms of the earth. Mechanical skill and production spread from Flanders to the free cities of Germany; and England's great Edward conferred upon her a boon, by introducing emigration from the manufactories of the continent, which has rarely been equalled by her most glorious military and naval victories. It has been justly observed that, aided by the practical arts, the democratically interest gained the first modern triumph; for while, in an earlier day, Wat Tyler's powerless rabble fell easily before the knights in their armor of steel, Cromwell gathered fro
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Baptist Convention. (search)
ate distrust of France. The Antwerp affair is not less grave, and we could show, on Belgian authority itself, that the citadel at Antwerp, instead of protecting Belgium, tends to deprive it of the real power which it drew from the principle of its neutrality." On the other hand, the Steels published a day or two ago the following: It is said that, in virtue of an arrangement already concluded, and with the consent of England, Antwerp and the sea-coast are to be given to Holland. Flanders and Brabant to France, and Luxembourg, with a part of Limburg, to Prussia. We have not seen the treaty, and we are not responsible for the mistakes of the propagators of these reports. Moreover, is the annexation possible without very, very liberal modifications in the domestic policy of France? Leopold the second. The new King of the Belgians, Leopold Louis Phillipe Marle Victor was both on the 9th of April, 1835, and is consequently in the thirty-first year of his age. When li
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