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The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
s as they have been enabled to govern themselves. [Applause] Some persons may say the Northern States are a great deal stronger than the South, and therefore they must win.--Well, gentlemen, England was a great deal stronger in olden times than Scotland; but Englishmen, as well as Scotchmen, know that when it was the object of Englishmen to establish a supremacy over Scotland, the Scotch proved themselves to be what are called very ugly customers. [Laughter and applause.] At length, it waScotland, the Scotch proved themselves to be what are called very ugly customers. [Laughter and applause.] At length, it was not the exercise of force, but a sense of policy and prudence on both sides, dictated in the main by natural circumstances, that led to the union of the two kingdoms. But the position of the Northern States is this: "We won't let you go." The position of the Southern is "We are determined to go." Gentlemen, you are men of business; and if one of you has a partner, and that partner wants to separate from you, I ask you whether, in the long run, if it is not difficult to hold him? [Laughter.]