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The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
im is an appetite which has no bounds, except the ability of the victim to resist and retaliate. It is that which makes the war upon the South so exhilarating to Black Republicans; they can strike and we cannot strike back. It is that also which is our own consolation. If we cannot strike back at them, we can pummel each other, and thereby relieve our natural indignation. The great use and advantage of an Executive in times of war is to have somebody to blame and abuse. The Earl of Chatham was the only man that ever escaped this all but universal fate of Presidents and Premiers. It is true, he was just the most self-willed, arbitrary and overbearing man that ever lived, and was so absolutely determined to have the control of measures, of which he had the sole responsibility, that he compelled the first Lord of the Admiralty to sign naval orders issued by the Premier — while the writing was covered over from his eyes. England, grumbling, growling England — then, "for the fir