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The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
severance was over we came at length to recognize it as a good, and we are thankful that the American Colonies were parted from us, because we think we could not have governed them as much for their own advantages as they have been enabled to govern themselves. [Applause] Some persons may say the Northern States are a great deal stronger than the South, and therefore they must win.--Well, gentlemen, England was a great deal stronger in olden times than Scotland; but Englishmen, as well as Scotchmen, know that when it was the object of Englishmen to establish a supremacy over Scotland, the Scotch proved themselves to be what are called very ugly customers. [Laughter and applause.] At length, it was not the exercise of force, but a sense of policy and prudence on both sides, dictated in the main by natural circumstances, that led to the union of the two kingdoms. But the position of the Northern States is this: "We won't let you go." The position of the Southern is "We are deter