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The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
if this should blast in proof." Alas ! since this Chicago plan must fall, it has no back or second. [Cheers and laughter.] When negotiation and all the arts of statesmanship are exhausted, the navy would be scattered, withdrawn from the blockade, and the armies dispersed in their homes — the treasury empty — the national credit sunk — France and Great Britain will have recognised the rebels, and even our steadfast friend, the Emperor of Russia, [cheers] together with the Sultan of Turkey, the Pasha of Egypt and the Emperor of China, will have given over, with pain and mortification, the friendly nation that, in a pusillanimous hour, delivered itself to self- destruction. [Cheers.] Fellow-citizens, you are all free and independent as I am, and you may, and must, decide the question for yourselves. I cannot decide it for you, nor shall you decide it for me. I am not going to surrender to the rebels. [Cheers.] No ! though they extend the desolation of civil war over the<
The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
o enlist the profound attention of the Russian Government. The only pretext of Russia for the war upon Circassia was that, by virtue of the treaty of Adrianople, Turkey had placed Circassia under the dominion of Russia, whereas Turkey herself never had, nor claimed to have, rights over the Circassians or their country. We are noTurkey herself never had, nor claimed to have, rights over the Circassians or their country. We are not discussing the question of right, however. It is might which too often makes right in this world. It was a stern political necessity for Russia to obtain Circassia, as the key to all her projected military enterprises in the East. Any pretext would be sufficient for a war having that object. Her strength was such as the mostere environed by a blockade, which not only rendered it difficult to obtain arms, but even salt, which they could not produce; and, like us, they had no friends. Turkey, bound to them by so many ties of blood, turned a deaf ear to their invocations for assistance, and England, whose vital interest it was to thwart the designs of
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], The inaugural of the Governor of South Carolina. (search)
dismal picture of the present belligerent condition of the world: "If there be a dead calm in politics, as well as business, among us, it is not the same in all parts of the little planet we inhabit. Three-quarters of humanity, in fact, are living in the barbarous state of war. There is war in Poland; war in Algeria, war in Tunis; war in Mexico; war in the United States; war in Peru; war in New Zealand; war in China and Zachgar; war in Japan; war in Afghanistan; war in twenty countries in Africa. This is, unfortunately, enough to discourage the friends of universal peace; and who can say they will not meet with still greater disappointment next year. Italy, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Slavonian population of Turkey, are not, it must be confessed, in the most pacific humor, and, to those who study the general situation of our continent, it is quite evident that the general situation, instead of getting better, goes on from day to day getting more and more complicated."
The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], Rebellion. (search)
rebelled against George III. Without deciding whether those rebellions were justifiable, or whether they were wrong, or whether the Southern rebellion is justifiable or not, Earl Russell says: "The mere fact of rebellion is not, in my eyes, a crime of so deep a dye that we must renounce all fellowship and communion and relationship with those who have been guilty of it. I own I cannot but wonder to see the offspring of three rebellions really speaking like the Czar of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey, or Louis XIV. himself, of the dreadful crime and guilt of rebellion." What adds to the audacity of this outcry, is the simple fact that there has been no rebellion at all, unless it be that of the Black Republican party against the American Constitution. There must be allegiance to a government acknowledged before resistance of its authority becomes rebellion. The States never owed any such allegiance to their agency at Washington. They were the sovereigns, to whom, and to whom alo
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
er by the king of the Cannon Ball islands, and with all his crew was cast into chains and slavery, where he died an ignominious natural death, with his whole crew, leaving not one to tell the tale. Peace to his ashes and their'n. "Sir, the discovery of this continent was the greatest invention in the year 1492. Fernandez island was the stepping-stone to the settlement of this country, the United States, North and South America, Oregon and Asia, Hindoostan and Beloochistan, England and Turkey, France and China, and many others too numerous to mention. Behold these countries, traversed by steamboats, railroads and telegraphs, and ask yourself would these things have been, if it had not been for Columbus; and your reply would certainly be, 'Certainly not, sir.' If it had not been for Columbus, General Washington would not have been a man; but suppose he had, what then? What did Washington ever do that was a great benefit to his country? There is much said about his talents for w
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
uropeans by passing out of the Mediterranean Sea, through the Straits of Gibraltar, and sailing down the entire western coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope, and then northwest to the entrance of the Indian Ocean at the Straits of Babelmandel. England, by its westerly position, had the easiest course to India and Continental Europe, by the natural obstacles to the voyage, were at disadvantages in prosecuting commerce with Southern India. But the opening of the Suez Canal brings Greece, Turkey, Austria, Italy and France almost in a direct northern and northwestern line with this new channel of commerce. It opens to them advantages which they never before possessed, and of which they will not be slow to take advantage. Syracuse may be said to be the port nearest this great gate way to the South. Trieste, Venice, Naples, Leghorn, Genoa, Nice, Toulon and Marseilles may struggle for the rich trade with Malta and Constantinople. --England is left in the rear of commerce, and the Fre
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
far as to anticipate the probability of our having to resist. No doubt it would be a costly war, for we should have to resume our old part as paymaster, subsidizer, and purveyor of all things needful for the war. What fleets, what transports, what ordnance, what ammunition, what stores would have to run the gauntlet of American cruisers between our own ports and our American colonies! No doubt we could raise a hundred millions for this purpose as easily as we raised them for the defence of Turkey. We should do it, perhaps, with more pleasure. But we suspect we should have to double the figure before we had attained to that self-satisfaction of victory sufficient to make us hold our hands. Perhaps it is some such second-sight that forces itself on the mental vision of our fellow-citizens in their most prophetic moods, and keeps consols down below 90. The Relations between the United States and great Britain. [From the Daily News, March 10.] It is time to introduce a littl
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], The late Mr. Corwin. (search)
Life in Egypt. [From the London Saturday Reviews.] "Some persons," said Madame Andouard in her preface, "affirm that the torch of civilization has been kindled in Egypt; that the country is making rapid progress, while the other provinces of Turkey remain stationary. It is affirmed that the present Viceroy, educated in Paris, devotes himself to eradicating whatever of barbarism lingers in the country, and that he has replaced the caprices of despotism by a wise and enlightened liberty." Fifteen months of inquiry on the spot have led Madame Andouard to a different conclusion. The present volume embodies the data on which her conclusion rests, and illustrates it by a profusion of examples. Some of the stories of Mohammed Ali's family are worthy of the grimiest personages in The Thousand and One Nights, and about as valuable in an historical point of view. The Pacha's daughter, the Princess Nesle-Hanen, was a second Marguerite de Burgoyne. She was married to a Turkish commissio
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