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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), The Reveries of Reverdy. (search)
ks at a curiously rapid rate. These phenomena were accompanied by an almost irresistible desire to place the thumb to the nose. Dissolve the Union, says Reverdy, and you are physically, morally, socially and economically done for. He uses no such vulgar language, but that is what he means. He says to us: Dissolve, and your downfall fall commences, and rapid will be its progress A progressive downfall, Heaven save us! must be something perfectly awful, and suggests the dire catastrophe of Jack and Gill and the well-known pail of water. But hearken to the Baltimore Jeremiah! Having smashed the Union, he paints the cruel consequence of the division to the Northern half, or, to speak more accurately, two-thirds. Our magnificent commercial marine will be one no longer. Minus the Stars and Stripes, it will go at once to the celebrated locker of D. Jones. We shall dwindle to the feebleness of a German principality. We can only traverse the deep by permission of the great nations