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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Lincoln's last speech. (search)
berius. How long could either of these last have kept their ground, against a free press, with some Pliny or Tagitus thundering every morning against the corruption of the times? If, however, the Romans understood well enough the power of the printing press, and restrained it to suit the purposes of an oligarchy, they seem to have utterly overlooked the power of gunpowder. That they knew of it, is evident from many passages in ancient authors, among them some from the great Roman engineer Vitruvius, who was a contemporary of Julius Cæsar, and wrote under Augustus. Had he taken an enlarged view of the phenomena connected with the subject, what a change he might have produced in the history of the world. Imagine the great Roman General taking the field with several hundred field-pieces, to conquer Gaul, brining his heavy guns to bear upon the eighty fortresses which he demolished with his battering rams, breaking the ranks of Pompey at Pharsalus, with the concentrated fire of a po