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"That is my name, sir," Dickinson answered, with unexpected fortitude. "I regret to say," the detective continued, "that I have also a warrant for your arrest in connection with the same matter." Sir Richard had hold of the butt end of his revolver then. Like grisly phantoms, the thoughts chased one another through his brain.

The men named, taking their cue from Dickinson, and acting up to instructions already received, assumed a sulky unwilling demeanour as they set about the work of packing a small quantity of already carefully selected clothes in their bags, growling and grumbling at having to turn out just when they were thinking of tumbling into their hammocks, and so on, but using the utmost expedition all the same.

Stanton, "I am starving for a full talk with somebody posted, not merely pitted for Lincoln...." The persistent cry of the Liberator and the Antislavery Standard to re-elect Lincoln and not to swap horses in midstream did not ring true to her. "We read no more of the good old doctrine 'of two evils choose neither," she wrote Anna E. Dickinson.

His moderation was not at all akin to the moderation of Dickinson and such men, who were always wanting to add another to the long procession of petitions and protests. He only desired that the leading should be done by the wise men, so as not to have a Braddock's defeat in so grave and perilous an undertaking.

Van Buren as ``the Curtius of the Republic. Upon this Dickinson jumped up, went to some member better educated in the classics than himself, and said, ``Who in thunder is this Curtis that this man is talking about? ``It isn't Curtis, it 's Curtius, ``was the reply. ``Well, now, `` said Dickinson, ``what did Curtius do? ``Oh, said his informant, ``he threw himself into an abyss to save the Roman Republic. Upon this Dickinson returned to his seat, and as soon as the Democratic speaker had finished, arose and said: ``Mr.

There is a something about Mr. PUNCHINELLO but it matters not suffice it to say that he went out buggy riding the next day with ANNA DICKINSON on the Lake road. The horse he drove had belonged to LEONARD JEROME he was out of "Cash" by "Thunder," and he had sold him to the livery-man here. He was called a "two-forty," but when he began to go, Mr.

"The transports Long Branch, William N. Frazier, Star, and Tallaca, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Dickinson, of General Hooker's staff, conveyed the cavalry and the captured horses and mules across the Rappahannock from Urbanna to Carter's wharf, six miles higher up than the former place, and subsequently conveyed the contrabands to Aquia Creek.

It satisfied neither the board of trade to whom it was submitted, nor the colonial assemblies who discussed it. "The assemblies did not adopt it," he said, "as they all thought there was too much prerogative in it, and in England it was judged to have too much of the democratic." Dickinson, Johnson, and Rutledge, had been members of the stamp-act Congress in 1765.

Morgan is towards the right flank, Gen. Dickinson is a little upon the left, Gens. Scott and Maxwel have insisted upon going further down than we are now; for Wayne's and Jackson's corps they have not had provisions at all but will be able to march in the night.

"That during a recent tour at the south, while ascending the Ohio river, on the steamboat Fame, he had an opportunity of conversing with a Mr. Dickinson, a resident of Pittsburg, in company with a number of cotton-planters and slave-dealers, from Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, Mr.