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The New York Herald, of March 10, 1860, said: ‘ "Seward is now the leader and exponent of the fanatical crusade against slavery. He is neither a statesman nor a sound philosopher, but only a demagogue and an agitator Beginning public life as an anti-Masonic crusader, he has clung to power by stimulating every fanaticism, and now he leads in the promulgation of his brutal and bloody doctrines against the rights of the States and the guarantees of the Constitution." ’ A thousand similar sentiments appeared every week in the Herald before the era of coercion. But now it is the foremost in dispensing adulation of Seward's statesmanship, and in cheering on the "brutal and bloody" work of subjugation. Any one in New York who should dare to utter his own sentiments now would be denounced by the Herald as guilty of treason, and sent to Fort Lafayette.
The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 3 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 7, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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