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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Missouri's response to Lincoln's Proclamation. (search)
from the same Stygian mud in which the more demonstrative and unclean mob are now wallowing, and in no wise differ from them except in their wealth, which has no power to confer elevated sentiments or purity of character. Consequently, as their own newspapers testify, the classes of those cities called conservative, which is but another name for men of money, are the most depraved and ignorant of any society in the world which pretends to social elevation and influence.--It is believed that Paris, in its worst days, never equalled the corruptions of society among the fashionable classes in the Northern cities. For true conservatism we have the most profound respect, and Heaven forbid that, in forming a new Government, the South should leave root or branch of that accursed levelling and agrarian spirit which has brought this country to its ruin. But for the whited political and moral sepulchres of the North called conservatives, simply because they have money in their purse and seek