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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of an Express train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. (search)
A second Daniel come to judgment. In Mohammedan countries idiots and madmen are treated with superstitions veneration, and their incoherent ravings regarded as the genuine outpourings of inspiration.--It must be under the influence of some such superstition, we presume, that our volatile friends, the Yankees, enter upon record "such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff" as we have lately been presented with under the name of conversations with Lieutenant. General Winfield (or Wingfield) Scott, insisting at the same time, upon the title of its author, to be placed, like Saul, among the prophets. What other title the distinguished utterer can have to that lofty eminence it is difficult to imagine. Most certainly, whatever it may be, it is not of that character described by Cicero, which consists in foretelling the future by judging from the past; for the country probably never produced a man who has risen so high, with so little pretensions to those qualifications which are understoo
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
s do believe there is power to coerce evil doers to good behaviour under the Constitution. This discussion showed where the dividing line is to be drawn. Mr. Winfield, (N Y,) said there always had been and always would be War Democrats. When assailed in the past they had always been on the side of the country to the extent e rear. These things had a tendency to divide the people and protract the war. The unity of the people was more important than a party triumph for four years. Mr. Winfield referred to the unjust remarks frequently applied to Gov. Seymour, and defended that gentleman, showing that he had always advocated force to put down the rebeGrinnell (Iowa) referred to the Democratic party as the sick man of 1864. It was too far gone for any medicine yet discovered to cure it. He protested against Mr. Winfield turning over Fernando Wood to the Republican party. They had done nothing to justify such a terrible infliction. The gentleman from Indiana (Mr Harrington) h
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e thought these skirmishes great battles, and the man who commanded the troops a great general. Those were the days of the pigmies in contrast with the gigantic race of the present day, and the gigantic achievements which they have already accomplished, and by which they are to be still more distinctly marked than they yet have been. Mexico, and its Lillipution combats, are fast fading from the memory of mankind. There is one individual, however, that will never forget them. That is General Winfield (or rather Wingfield) Scott. The memory of this old man, with regard to himself and his exploits (such as they were), is remarkably tenacious. "Oh! oh! you have forgotten Lundy's Lane," said Scott, groaning with affected pain, to Mr. Clay, when, on one occasion, the veteran orator, in a moment of hilarity, clapped him upon the shoulder which had been wounded in that much-be-praised engagement. "I had forgotten it," was the reply. "I had forgotten it, but you never do." Scott can never
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