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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The London Press on Lincoln's Message. (search)
of such an offer to an unvanquished and undaunted enemy, or on the devilish malignity which dictated the list of exceptions. "This is not an amnesty; it is a proscription" It offers nothing which could be withheld if the last Southern town had been taken, and the last Southern regiment out to pieces; it promises merely to none whom it would be practically possible to hang, if the South were absolutely at the merely of the Yankee terrorists. It is such an edit as might have been drawn up by Beecher and Charles Sumner, and countersigned by Robespierre and One little fragment of practical meaning is discernible amid the frantic ebullition of ferocious insolence and blood-thirsty menace. The President has taken the sinister but subtle advice often tendered to him by some of his more sooner friends, and is about to carry into effect a notable device for insuring his own re-election and the apparent re-construction of the Union. "Manhattan" has pointed out that without the Southern