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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], The sequestration law. (search)
so with almost every officer whom they elect, from the President to the constable.--Wise and virtuous men among them have no chance in the world for any office, however humble. The members of Congress in both branches are generally the most vulgar, unprincipled, and conscienceless demagogues to be found in the whole land. There is only one Vallandigham to be found among the elect of the universal Yankee nation. Not as many righteous men can be found in Washington as were reguired to save Sodom from destruction. The United States Senate, which was once an assemblageas able and almost as dignitied as the British House of Lords, is now a conclave of brawling, pot-house politicians, of men ahke destitute of official and personal dignity, and only less barbarous and savage than the Indian sachems of former days, whithout, however, half their self-respect and courage.--What is to be thought of a nation which condemns the wise and good to obscurity, and elevates to power only the ig