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Gunboats

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
March
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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■Time tries all, saya tho oid proverb. Sixty yeara ago, wlieii Thomas Jefferson wus Prosideat, and Aaron Burf Vico President, inmensa ridiculo was 0M9t upon Mr. Jefíerson's geherne of defending áur ooasts by meaos of gunlxmts. The President contended that wu needed lew larga peHeels'Ofwar, because tho Uinted States wus not likely to ba ong;iged tn any but a war üf defence, nndfordo(onding dur line of coast a gunboat was uorth an eighty gun ubip. Tho oppositjon, diizzled hy íioliievernents ot' tha British n-.wy, diídained theso little öraft, and olamorecj ftfr moreirnposina; vesseÍB. The evsnts oí' tliis year havoshown that tlieie was a groat deal oí sensein Jefferso.i's polic'. L2L" The shaniflul faot that ut tfio recent butilo in ArkansqR, th sav.ige Indians employcd by tliü rebels tamahawked, fqlped wd manglcd the bodies of our soldiors s proved by the lettor of General Curtís tot he rebel eomniunder, find substantiated froni olhoi' sources. BS3U Vfhon a Charleston hotel koeper sent to New York fpr proWsigo?, jbo merchai t adviscd him to eut his cottoo. On the same principie, beu his whisky gives out ' Ion ei.n.

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Old News
Michigan Argus