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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Roland Oliver
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no one will pretend that, for the purpose of philosophical discussion, personal recrimination is of any value.
You are another, proves nothing but bad temper, and a worse cause.
From this point of view Gen. Butler's retorts upon his transatlantic censors seem to be simply amusing.
They remind us, as we read, of Satan, with a savor of his normal brimstone exuding, from every pore, creeping, tail and all, into some empty pulpit, and exhorting the congregation to abandon its sins.
When lechers preach continence, when misers advocate liberality, when bullies set up for Chesterfields, when prize-fighters put on Quaker coats, when liars tender their corporal oath, it is the way of the world, a very wicked and uncharitable world, no doubt, to snicker and to sneer.
It cannot be helped.
It is only a simple resort to our natural defence against presumption and hypocrisy.
It is no palliation, indeed, of our own wrongdoing, but it is a fair assertion of our right to