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The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--$25 reward. (search)
uthority and his dictatorial character. With the decease of Davis, Alexander H. Stephens — a superior debater and politician, although a jaundiced, dried up and the paramount duties of this office — those of dictator of the rebel armies — Stephens, we apprehend, is no better qualified than is Horace Greeley to stand in the shoes of General Scott. Stephens is an able lawyer, an able stump speaker, a skillful, intriguing politician, and withal, a man of strikingly conservative antecedentstarting up in the rebel States. To be sure, the provisional term of Davis and Stephens expires in February, when a rebel President and Vice- President are to be regularly elected; but this interval to February under Stephens, or under anybody else, will probably break down the whole concern. Such men as R. Barnwell Rhett, ofbut not with the comprehensive abilities and graceful condescension of Davis. Stephens has not been trained to recognize the superior blessings of a despotism of any<