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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 18: at Washington. (search)
I am disgusted with these wasps and hornets, he remarks, yet cannot help looking at them. Few soldiers have enjoyed the art of treating caricatures like Fritz der Einige: Let everyone see and speak. My people and myself understand each other; they say what they like, I do what I like. If it be true that a man is not really famous till he is well abused, it is not the less true that a man is never much abused till he has made himself famous in some other way. Grant may not be, like O'Connell, the best-abused man alive, but is assuredly the worst-abused man in the United States. All sorts of sins and vices ale imputed to him. According to the caricatures he is a tyrant and a traitor, an assassin and a thief. He wants a third term of office, he keeps a military household, he despises civil authority. He is called Caesar in mockery, Soulouque in earnest. Hosts of mean offences are imputed to him-avarice, nepotism, venality-and the comic papers bristle with insults and assault