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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Morgan Certainly Shaved. (search)
In all ages the tyrants who have inflicted punishment upon the patriot and the sage for loving his country and serving it too well, have succeeded to the execration of posterity.--Who would have known aught of the murderers who slew Socrates by a false sentence, had they not come down to us linked with the name of their victim? Who is most respected by posterity — Machiavelli or the Median by whom he was tortured and imprisoned? Did the criminal's cap, and death upon the gallows, make Wallace less respectable, or the ungenerous monarch, whose prisoner he was, more admired by succeeding ages? This very deed, if he were not already damned in the eyes of all mankind except the detestable race of which he is the proper type and fitting ruler, would cause the name of Abraham Lincoln to become a hissing and a reproach to all the nations of the earth. But he is already damned in the estimation of mankind and we suppose, has nothing to lose.--Who had not rather be John Morgan, in his