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The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Give us light and air. (search)
Federal Outrages. --A Norfolk correspondent of the Petersburg Express mentions the following: Bitter complaints are made by the fishermen on Cape Henry Beach about Lincoln's thieving minions. They say the impudent miscreants pay them daily visits, take from them what fish they want, and threaten instant death if they attempt to resist or refuse them the fish gratis. I learned yesterday, from a member of the Princess Anne Cavalry, that this defect will be remedied, by mounting several "baby guns" near the scene of the enemy's operations, in order to give them a welcome and honorable salute upon their approach. This will be the only effectual means of making them "move their washing." Clemency may he shown a national, just as well as an individual enemy until he despises it. It seems to be high time that these inhuman depredations were stopped.--These vandals are devoid of dignity and civility, and are estranged from all the fine sensibilities of man. There are indeed hom
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The Seward Despotism. The Somerville (Tenn.) Republic thus speaks: "Although Lincoln is nominally President, Seward is really King of the Northern Government. He it is that moves the secret springs of despotism that is now enthroned in Washington City. He is, in fact, the State--the Government. In him it lives, and moves, and has its being. A man of gigantic intellect, he has, in reality, grasped the rules of power, and, in the wild whirl of events, we would not be astonished to see him proclaimed Dictator. Lincoln is a mere nothing — a mere cypher in the greet drama of civil revolution that has been inaugurated; Seward it is who gives shapes and color to that political policy which now rules the North." In this picture, generally accurate, Seward looms up like a veritable German devil. But we have never yet seen the evidence of his "gigantic intellect," nor of any qualities which entitle him for a moment to be considered a great statesman. It is the work of