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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
nkee is a more cruel — because he is a more cowardly — animal than the Muscovite. proscription and murder will walk hand in hand through the country. They will take revenge on us for all the defeats our soldiers have inflicted on them. Even now, if they dared, they would murder every officer and every private that came into their power. It has often been said that there was a near relationship between a democracy of the ultra description and despotism. The one slides naturally into the other as soon as the barriers that separate the people from the throne are removed. Rome was an aristocracy of the straitest sect until Marius shook and Julius Cæsar prostrated the Patrician order. Augustus tyrannized under the forms of a republic, and there was no intermediate body to arrest his encroachments. Under the name of a republic Lincoln is at this moment exercising a power as absolute as that of Alexander II., and is using it for the same purpose that it is used by the Autocr