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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Who are Americans? (search)
America all its glory; they have trampled the Constitution, which was the bond and life of that Union, in a perfect tempest of passion under their feet, and dansed upon its torn fragments like so many howling dervishes; they have erected a colossal military despotism upon the ruins of republican liberty. They do not seem to be the same men, intellectually and morally, any more than politically. Not a single statesman is left within their whole borders. Instead of the Clintons, Spencers, Grosvenor, Livingston, Van Nesses, and Van Renselaers, of New York, there is that miserable scrub, Seward, combining a Gilbert Glossin and Oily Gammon, an educated blackguard — of all blackguards, the most disgusting — a fellow without birth, reeding, or any of the ideas or feelings of a gentleman, and whose whole career has never exhibited one single example of sagacious and comprehensive statesmanship. Instead of the spirit of Americanism which many years ago animated the Northern masses, there h