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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last letters from the correspondent of the London times. (search)
metaphorically, and not physically — has a great influence, derived from the clearness of his head, his persistency, and the rigidity of his principles among his party; but his doctrines would most likely end in confining the United States to the original New England settlements, or in establishing a dictatorship resting on bayonets. What prelacy, popery, and monarchy were to the men of the first covenant, Southern rights, slaveholding included, are to Mr. Blair. Nor are they less so to Mr. Chase, who possesses, after all, the largest and most solid brain in the Cabinet, but who had no objection at one time to let the South go if it liked, believing that the system on which it was founded must be in the end, and that not distantly, the means of inflicting a punishment and vengeance on the seceding States far more terrible than any, either the army or navy of the North could execute. Speculations on the policy of the Contestants. All that can be seen or heard leads to the b