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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Joint meeting. (search)
o market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty that they can't help taking liberties with her. The Stars wink upon the bloody Stripes, and Liberty pulls down her cap upon her eyes, and owns Oppression in its vilest aspect for her sister." Such are some specimens of the "American Notes" and "Martin Chuzzlewit" productions, which may prove the author not only to be at home in the realm of fiction, but never to leave them, and which certainly do not show to advantage by the side of Dr. Tocqueville's profound volume upon America, or the dignified observations of Lord Marpeth, and others of that class of English gentlemen to which Mr. Dickens does not belong either by social position or by that higher patent of a noble and magnanimous character which Nature confers. The genuine jewel of his undeniable genius sparkles in the head of a toad, and even the touching pathos of his portraitures of human suffering may have no deeper sources than the equally beautiful sentimentality or S