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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
e hot weather lead to a suspension of hostilities, we are inclined to hope that the voice of reason will once more be heard. Our letter from New York gives, no doubt, a truthful picture of the terror which restrains men from saying what they think. But when we find that a member of Congress and a representative of New York has the courage to rebuke the savage passions of his people, we are encouraged to hope for some change. The speech, or rather pamphlet (for it was never spoken,) of Mr. Benj. Wood is but the repetition of what we have been saying for months. He asks, 'What is the use of a Union of unwilling States, driven into companionship at the point of the bayonet and held there thereafter by military power! If not brought back by negotiation, they are lost to us forever. To conquer them may be possible, but to hold them in subjection, having conquered them, would in itself be a final repudiation of the first principles of republicanism.' Such is the language of a man who s