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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
o'clock, and straightway proceeded to the wharf at Rocketts. Not a member of our company knew his destination, and many conjectures were formed on the subject. In sooth, we were entirely in gloom thereto, until the Glen Cove hove within sight of King's wharf. Our trip was a delightful one, and nothing occurred to stifle the cheerfulness and contentment of the soldiers. We remained at the wharf at Rocketts about three hours, waiting the storing of baggage and the systematic arrangement oftualled by the cooks of a steamer of as small size as the Glen Cove. Consequently those who disregarded the order of their superior officer were compelled to fast until our advent into Williamsburg. We arrived without accident of any kind at King's wharf, about 7 o'clock. After the disembarkation of the troops, the line was formed, and we commenced the march through forest and glen for Williamsburg. The Life Guard and Henrico Guards, (Capt. Dance,) were detailed for duty at Jamestown, and
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], "Old Charley" arrived at camp. (search)
Extremes Meeting. The universal suffrage of the North has built up a military despotism at Washington, and made Lincoln, like Louis Napoleon, Emperor "by the will of the people." Between a representative Democracy, and a Democracy in which everybody votes for everything, and the majority of numbers is acknowledged sovereign, there is a gulf as wide as any which rolls between Constitutional Liberty and the sway of an absolute and crowned King. If we were compelled to choose between the Emperor Alexander and the many-headed despot, King Numbers, we would swear allegiance to the first without a moment's hesitation. We would rather any day be at the mercy of a king, though absolute and hereditary, who is himself under the influence of public opinion, and who could not, without fear of the vengeance of man here, and of God hereafter, commit any very flagrant outrage upon his subjects, than be the subject of a despotic majority, like that which now sways the Government of the United