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The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
henever men of ordinary intellect have risen in America, they have adapted themselves to the over-ruling exigencies in which they found themselves placed. Instead of venturing on the dangerous expedient of endeavoring to elevate their countrymen to their own height, they have sunken into the arms of the mob. Hence the Judges on the bench constantly give way to popular chimor, and law itself is abrogated by the law-makers and constantly violated by its functionaries.--Hence the ascendancy of Lynch law over State law; hence assassination in the daylight in the thronged street, and hence that intimidation from without which makes legislation itself a farce. The ablest men in America have bowed down before these demoralizing necessities. No man in America stands clear of this rotten despotism. The orator is compelled to address himself to the low standard of the populace; the preacher must preach down to the capacities of his congregation; the newspaper editor must make his journal in