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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the White House. (search)
a small Great Eastern. She was thirty feet in length, and one horse power. We sometimes hear from the enemy. They have in the vicinity of Old Point twenty- seven thousand stolen slaves; at Yorktown about ten thousand, and at Gloucester Point three thousand, who are dying rapidly with the small pox and the black tongue. Information of the attack said to have been in contemplation against Gloucester Point was conveyed to the enemy by a woman, who was brought to Richmond through this place a few days since. She had the look of a brazen, impudent traitor. I saw to-day a pair of solid gold spurs, sent by the patriotic ladies of Prince George county, Maryland, to Gen. Robert E. Lee. The gentleman who brought them (I must not mention his name) says they cost four hundred dollars in gold. They were truly handsome, neat, plain, and seemed as though they were made for him who will wear them, and given by the generous hearts that sent them. I will write again soon. Accomac,
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The English press on the emancipation Society. (search)
on Society's circulars and advertisements. What doubt, then, that an imposing meeting, attended by men of genius, of high attainments, of great social position, of political renown, would bear witness to the interest with which large and influential sections of English society follow the progress of Mr. Lincoln's policy ?. If even what is called the world — the frivolous, unthinking people who take their opinions from the press, who dislike Yankees for their pertness and boasting, and admire Lee and Jackson for their unexampled heroism — if even jealous politicians or illiberal soldiers stood apart, surely there would be enough of the more original thinkers to fill a platform ? More than this, in the centre of this great capital, with its hundreds of churches, in the neighborhood of men who have spent their lives in advocating every charitable cause, it might have been thought that a meeting professedly in favor of negro emancipation would not have wanted names of eminence. Afte