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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t, because of the great number of bays, inlets, creeks, and rivers; nor down the inferior, because of mountain ridges, impassable roads, sparse population, and scarcity of provisions. The Mississippi is narrow, long, tedious, and easily defended, and its valley is subject to overflow. No invading army will attempt a serious invasion in that direction. It is our true policy to decoy the enemy into the interior, and then to cut them off as were Braddock, and Burgoyne, and Cornwallis, and Ross, and Packenham, and our own troops in the everglades of Florida. When we have defeated and captured their armies, exhausted their treasury, and cowed their spirits by defensive warfare, it will be time for us to begin to act on the offensive, and to invade their territory. The Northwest is as level a country as Northern Europe, teems with provisions, and abounds with towns and villages Its population is a spiritless rabble, who have few arms and know little of their use, and who are endowed
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Mayor's Court. --Yesterday formed an exception to the general rule, and the attendance at the Mayor's matinee was so meagre that even the most persevering of the sans culottes retired from the presence in evident disgust. There were two or three cases of violation of the ordinance for the regulation of bar rooms, all of which were continued. G. Ross was fined $10 for permitting negroes to assemble unlawfully on his premises; and three "misbehaving" darkeys were punished according to the magnitude of their offences. --"Is that all?" asked the Mayor, "All," responded four policemen, in a breath. "Then bring out the big gun, and let mankind rejoice over this indication of the return of domestic peace." And the Court adjourned; and Mr. Hagan John took his departure for the Manchester batteries; and in an hour or two thereafter heavy reverberations were heard, and we suppose the big gun was fired.