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The Daily Dispatch: May 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
demand for its surrender, through its authorities, last December, in such a manner as to gain time to mature his plans, the town itself was slandered by the ignorant for failing to respond more ferociously, which would, in the circumstances, have been only folly. General Johnston died at Shiloh "repulsing calumny by glorious deeds. " Fredericksburg has silenced her defamers at least by glorious suffering. And even yet it is a preferred and cherished residence to many of her children. "Marius, sitting amid the ruins of Carthage," was a melancholy commentary on human greatness. Here we can show a lonesome bank director sitting cheerful amid the charred remains in the destroyed temple of Plautus, in which he once officiated. Indeed, the serenity which fairly shines from the faces of the greatest sufferers is wonderful — a calm tranquility which they would hesitate to confess and be wholly unable to explain. The reason is, "despair brings tranquility." But you will say, peac