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The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Demonstration in New York (search)
others so long as they are not troubled or their rights are not invaded — thus regarding them, we should be glad to hear that Lincoln had put them promptly under arrest. They richly merit it. A coup d'elat of that sort would be a capital thing for Lincoln, and a very just commending to their own lips of the poisoned chalice which they offer to the South! Still there were things notable in the speeches, and the running commentary upon them by the multitudes. One gentleman emulated Patrick Henry, and commended striking examples in historic retribution to the meditation of Lincoln. The interpolations of the masses were pithy. It may be that the ideas inculcated by the scene and the sayings may come to something. Time will tell. But all in the South must desire to see put to the test that bold assertion of Hunt, on the "house tops," that no New Yorker "shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without process of law." It is a sort of dare to Lincoln, uttered rather taun