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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
the establishment of the American Constitution that New York was not loyal to her duties under it, faithful to the spirit and the letter. The ablest men of New York are found at her bar, and rarely consent to enter public life. Such men as Charles O'Connor would disdain a seat in Congress — an unfortunate fact, which is true, more or less, of all the Northern States, for it has thrown open the doors of political preferment to men of a third and fourth rate class, who cannot obtain a livelihoodader. But this is all. In an unpremeditated discussion on the floor of the Senate, there are few Southern debaters who do not carry too many guns for the cut and dry Auburn oratory and in a legal grapple at the New York bar, with such giants as O'Connor, be would not have a whole bone left in his body. When we speak of a New York statesman, the image of Dr Witt Clinton rises to our mind, the man whose genius created that New York which Wm H Seward. the demagogue and destructionist, has done hi