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The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
e should we have found the perfect man? If there are others who would have avoided these errors, what guarantee have we that they would not have committed others of a more serious character? The whole world attests the wisdom and energy of President Davis's Administration, and his very enemies concede that he is the first statesman of the Southern Confederacy. Critics may speak of what has not been accomplished, but they do not inform us when before in the history of the world as much has be to the preservation of his own cowardly carcase from the perils into which he hurls other men, as pusillanimous as he is cruel, Abraham Lincoln has made himself the most contemptible of all the despots of modern times; for not one of them can be mentioned who refused to share the hardships and dangers of his subjects in time of war. Well may the South be proud of its President and of its own character, of which President Davis, in every public and private relation, is the representative man.