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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
dness and infatuation. There are those who cherish the vain delusion that the ruling spirits at Washington will be disposed towards peace. Never was there a greater hallucination or a wilder dream. It is an axiom of history that revolutions never go backwards. Those who raise the whirlwind may direct, but they cannot stay, the storm. Danton and Robespierre and Petion went on, and on, and on, until they themselves experienced the fate to which they had consigned so many victims. The Blairs, the Sewards and the Greeleys cannot stop in the full career of revolution, if they would; and they would not if they could. To pause, to parley and to make peace, may be the part of prudence for the North, as it indisputably is the part of patriotism; but it is not in the hearts of these men to espouse a policy of that pacific nature, even if it did not involve, as it does, their own banishment from power and disgrace before the world and posterity. That these men control the sentimen