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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaways (search)
the war has produced. "I want a hero — no uncommon want," has been the exclamation of the Northern press for some months. But no sooner has it obtained one than Barnum manifests the same desire, and rushes with headlong haste to secure the rarity. He is successful; the piratical negro is placed on exhibition by the side of his admit the justice of their declaration that a negro assassin is the greatest hero abolitionism has produced. Equally natural and characteristic is the conduct of Barnum in appropriating the first exhibition of heroism among Black Republicans to practical and solid uses. The war being a war of base greed and avarice, a war purely cities, it is right and proper that every heroic action and actor in it should be appreciated by a money standard, and should make as much out of it as they can. Barnum never made a better hit then in exhibiting a Black Republican hero as a curiosity. We advise him to add a new charm to the exhibition by exhibiting in the back g