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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negroes Seeking protection from Slemmer . (search)
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Rev. J. E. Carnes, of Texas Christian Advocate, says: "General Scott is compounded of two vanities — the vanity of the pacificator, and the vanity of the warrior.
But for the struggle between these two rival principles, he would long since have been petrified into a statue of self-admiration.
The military leg is always striving to get ahead of the peace leg, and this struggle for precedence is the only thing that keeps the old gentleman in motion. "