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The Daily Dispatch: April 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], Reported Confederate triumph in North Carolina. (search)
what way did they ever show it? Did they prove it in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States? Mr. Crittenden says: "If we have now and then foolish rulers, we have a wise people, " Pray who elected those "foolish rulers" but that "wise people? " Nor is it only "now and then" that they elect them. For the last quarter of a century no man of first-rate abilities had the remotest chance of being elected President of the United States.-- Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, could not come within gunshot of the Presidency. It was enough to ruin a man before the "wise people" to be suspected of having more brains than themselves. Great, lofty intellects, combined with good, moral natures that disdained to flatter them, and always told them the truth, were not the men for the people's money. --If a great statesman undertook to set himself in the way of the popular passions they swept him away where he was never heard of again. It was only old political courte