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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Hedging. (search)
duced to a skeleton, The Leg kept on the same as before. Slavery is the leg of the Southern Rebellion; and we are not surprised to hear, therefore, through General Butler, of a Southern Independence Association, which, when the Confederacy has gone to its diabolical father, is to labor for the reconstruction of the Democratic party, or any other political organization by which the South can regain its political ascendency, nor should we be electrified to learn that the virtuous Mr. Benjamin Wood has become an Honorary Brother of this shrewd league. If we must go back, no doubt argue these precautious patriarchs, let us see to it that we go back with Slavery strengthened, and with our chattels still more strongly confirmed to us! The dear Democrats are doubtless still our friends and will help us to make this detestable Union tolerable. We must admit that this shows not only good pluck but reasonable common sense. Slaveholders have found out that, Slavery preserved, they
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Mr. B. Wood's Utopia. (search)
call for two cocktails of reconciliation and two cigars of peace. Pleasing picture! Fine figment of the brain of Benjamin Wood! Shall we mortals ever see you realized, exquisitely embraced and enchantingly reduced to a dead certainty? There m us, being, we suppose, of a finer philosophical spirit. When we are fortunate enough to pick up a victory, the fraternal Wood mourns. By a parity of reason, when we are so unfortunate as to encounter defeat and disaster, we suppose that he rejoicefirst propose a return? Would the happy and contented house — hold then and there be with due ceremony organized? Member Wood may believe, but we do n't. By the destruction of the resisting powers of the South, this astute and benevolent gentlemon of Rebels--and if they were every one of them destroyed, by the sword, the axe, the gallows or ratsbane, the chances of Wood's Happy Family would be considerably multiplied. The object of the Government, if we understand it, is to enforce the leg