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Andrew Jackson (search for this): chapter 69
s--a most shameful imitation of the rascally doings at Washington under the old detestable rule. It further complains, that all the doings of the Congress which should restore the Revolters to supreme political freedom, are kept profound secrets from the Southern people — debates, decisions, and all! It is only known that the Emperor — we beg pardon — the President Davis vetoed more bills of the Provisional Congress than all the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Andrew Jackson included. He is, therefore, very properly styled a Despot. So the Southern Confederacy, in its enthusiastic pursuit of liberty, has secured, by the confession of The Mercury, a Congress which merely registers the Edicts of a Tyrant! Pray, was this worth the crime of which the Rebels have been guilty, and the sufferings to which they have been subjected? Poor little fishes! why don't yon come back to the old frying-pan? Then there is another trouble, which is, that as soon as the <
August 27th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 69
eal at him the deadliest of blows at any moment when it may gratify her whim or suit her convenience. He may be sure that she has well learned the lesson which he has assisted to teach her. Thus it is that men involve themselves in palpable absurdities, when for light and transient causes they attempt the overthrow of long-established governments. Thus it is that men incur a thousand perils, when they permit their passions to hurry them into treason. We do not, in all history, remember a revolution undertaken for the gratification of personal ambition which has been permanently successful; and we do not believe that the Slaveholders' Rebellion is destined to furnish an exception to the rule. We see something like safety for its projectors in their defeat; but in their success we see nothing for themselves, and the States which they have misled, but ultimate ruin, and the final extinguishment of every vestige of the ancient liberty of their white population. August 27, 1862.
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