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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The "Yankee" negroes. (search)
d by images of good men and fair women, real authentic human beings all alive, whom I had myself seen within its joyous and genial homes. For its outward aspect, take, I said, the city of Limerick (a place of about equal size) and lift it up from. Its alluvial plain on the bank of the Shannon; set it, not upon a hill, but upon seven hills, crown its highest summit with a lofty Ionic portico — which many honest Virginians fondly but fallaciously believe to be a copy of the Corinthian gem of Nimes — pour along its base a furious and foaming river, double the width and volume of the Shannon, though not so limpid as that salmon-peopled stream; line its streets with shady trees, many of them ancient and vast in girth; suppress the gray cathedral, and also the beautiful stone bridge; but put in their place the hugest of flour mills, and two long, white railroad bridges striding over the rugged granite bed and the wooded islands of the rushing river; and then mount to the roof of the capit