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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Message of the Governor of Florida. (search)
ment of civilized nations, his pitying sympathizers to relieve the distinguished President from the disreputable position, have insinuated that he issued the proclamation to convince pestiferous fanatics of their folly, as an ancient King of England and Denmark did when, "to confound his flatterers, he seated himself upon the strand and commanded the waves to retire." But, unfortunately for his Excellency, his proclamation illustrates the wicked folly of Belshazzar rather than the wisdom of Canute. Belshazzar sacrilegiously polluted the golden vessels that were taken out of the house of God which was at Jerusalem. Lincoln, with a traitor's ambition, has desecrated the Constitution of his country, which was revered as the palladium of civil liberty and the ark of its political safety.--Under the righteous condemnation of all statesmen of intelligence and patriotism, President Lincoln, now tremblingly, beholds written "upon the plaster of the wall," mene, mene, tekel upharsin.