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The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Senator Bayard, of Delaware. (search)
ly type of hero which the North can furnish. Sickles is another; Lincoln still another. Seward the false, Seward the liar, is the best type of statesman that the North can boast. Paradoxical as it may seem, none who know him will deny that John C. Heenan has more of the higher qualities of character than any of the creatures we have named. Heenan is a man of war in his way. Circumstances cast his lot in the lowest ranks of society; but, even in the sewers, he devoted his life to fame rather Heenan is a man of war in his way. Circumstances cast his lot in the lowest ranks of society; but, even in the sewers, he devoted his life to fame rather than to gain; and he is a better man to-day than Butler, or Sickles, or Lincoln, or Seward. The South was far from being corrupted by the principles of gain and selfishness. With Davis, Beauregard, Pickens, Wise, Beach, McCullough, and thousands of their stamp, it would be a libel to say that her race of heroes was extinct. But war is the nursery of heroism, and it is doubtless for some great providential purpose that her sons have been invoked to arms. The thoughts of her people will be