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The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
d and feasted upon; the South as an object upon which to lavish its choicest gifts. Witness Virginia's donation of her magnificent Northwestern domain; witness the liberal contributions of gallant soldiers which the South has made to the Federal armies in every war, whether to repel the invaders of Northern soil at Boston, at Saratoga, or on the Niagara; or to meet, single handed, the invader of her own in the Carolinas, at Yorktown, or at New Orleans; or whether called upon for her Palmetto, Mississippi, and other regiments of chivalric men, to conquer now glory and territory for the Union upon the soil of a foreign enemy. Montesquieu's celebrated doctrine, that the principle of government in a monarchy is honor; in a despotism, fear; and in a republic, virtue, can hardly be accepted as true; for both honor and virtue must rule in a republic; otherwise, virtue, unsupported by the sentiment of honor, must soon expire. It is profusely the fact that both of these principles have