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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The military despotism in the United States--speech of Senator Saulsbury. (search)
The military despotism in the United States--speech of Senator Saulsbury. The unexpected ebullition of popular feeling in illinois and Missouri, following close upon the speech of Senator Salisbury, of Delaware, shows that the people of the United States are getting tired of the military despotism of Lincoln — fired unto death, for in this "little affair" in Coles county, they have put their lives in the seale for freedom. The speech of Mr. Saulsbury was directed against military interference in elections. He said: The Senator from Michigan, (Mr. Howard,) had said that the time was unpropitious for the passage of such a bill as this. He would commend to him and others who thought like him the example of a distinguished British statesman, who, when the rights of the English subjects were at stake, rose in his place in Parliament and declined to discuss questions of war so long as private rights were in jeopardy. Under these constant encroachments of power we shall wake