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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 6 0 Browse Search
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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)
the feebleness of a German principality. We can only traverse the deep by permission of the great nations of the world. The charm of your enterprise, says Jeremiah Johnson, will be broken, the foundation of your strength destroyed, and you remitted to worse than infantile imbecility. A pretty prospect, indeed! Mr. Johnson cMr. Johnson concludes with total ruin , and thus finishes the most melancholy epistle which we have read for many a day. We will do him the justice to say that in the water-cart style he is easily first. Choate is lurid, but Johnson is moist. The only encouraging thing which he says is, that the Kansas excitement is permanently closed; and heJohnson is moist. The only encouraging thing which he says is, that the Kansas excitement is permanently closed; and he exults thereat. If he really thought so, he might have made his letter somewhat shorter and a trifle gayer. Why doleful dumps should now the Johnsonian mind oppress; why he should continue to sigh, and sob, and groan, and grunt, and cry, and choke; why he should persist in shouting fire, now that the fire is extinguished; why he