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The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Lincoln's confiscation scheme.
Mr. Abraham Lincoln's grand scheme for appropriating everybody's property in the Southern Confederacy is eminently suited to the traditions and genius of the Puritan Yankee.
There is always method in the madness of that peculiar people.
Hobbies they have of different kinds, but the hobbies allMr. Abraham Lincoln's grand scheme for appropriating everybody's property in the Southern Confederacy is eminently suited to the traditions and genius of the Puritan Yankee.
There is always method in the madness of that peculiar people.
Hobbies they have of different kinds, but the hobbies all ride in one direction.
Whether it be prelacy, or papacy, or slavery, the end is always the same — confiscating somebody's goods and chattels, and putting the same in their own pious pockets.
No sooner had they overturned the Church and State in England than they divided their lands and revenues among themselves, and no sooner ha ys have been after, without palavering about philanthropy, abolition, Canaanites, chosen people, and other stereotyped gibberish of Puritanical pick pockets.
Abraham Lincoln's confiscation programme discards all superfluous syllables, and comes to the point at once.
It is a slight modification of the high waymen's demands--"your
Lincoln's last Joke:
--An offer of pardon to three hundred thousand Southerners, and as offer of eight hundred dollars bounty to five hundred thousand Northerners to make them accept it.