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The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Good arrangement. (search)
Majorities Ruling.
In Mr. Lincoln's Pittsburg speech, he declared that majorities ought to rule, and if his policy was not liked as President, the majority ought to turn him out. According to his own rule, he ought not to be President at all, for there was a large majority of the people's vote against him. He is a minority President, a fact which ought to give him a faint conception of the idea that minorities in a constitutional republic sometimes have rights.
By the way, it is fair to infer from this Pittsburg speech, that the Illinois patriarch contemplates the possibility of his re-election.--What do Seward & Co. say to that?
Secession in England.
Slowly, but surely, the English press is opening its eyes to the truth.
The London Times criticizes Seward's late speech in the Senate as meaning nothing.
The Money Market Review closes a long article on "The Prospects of American Trade" with the following paragraph, some errors in which will readily occur to the intelligent reader, but which we quote as a significant indication of the manner in which the London press is gradually preparing the public mind for a fraternal embrace of the new Confederacy:
"So long as the present Union is maintained the Southern States must remain in dependence on the North, producing nothing but what they produce at present, and receiving from the North at second-hand everything that they consume.
This would be no privation were the Southern States without the resources for any higher industrial effort, and cat off from direct communication with the world.
But they are in possession of some of the finest harbors on t