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The Daily Dispatch: April 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Picture of Lincoln drawn from an old Gallery. (search)
A Picture of Lincoln drawn from an old Gallery. --Edmund Burke, while Great Britain was prosecuting the war against the American colonies, wrote the following to the Sheriffs of Bristol: "The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save himself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable to God and man. But I cannot conceive any existence under heaven (which in the depths of its wisdom tolerates all sorts of things,) that is more truly odious than an impotent, helpless creature, without civil wisdom or military skill; without a consciousness of any qualification for power; calling for battles which he is not to fight; contending for a violent dominion be can never exercise, and satisfied to be himself miserable in order to make others wretched."