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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Capture of more steamers. (search)
The Northern Usurper. --The declaration of Lincoln to a citizen of Virginia, mentioned some time ago in this paper, substantially to the effect that during his life time there would be no more reful to pick out the best warrior of their tribe. It is reserved for the North, if it permits Lincoln's ambitious yearnings to be gratified, to lay down their liberties at the foot of an obscure at so degraded as to place the imperial purple for the first time upon such shoulders as those of Lincoln. In hereditary monarchies the crown often descends to incompetent persons; but we think the annals of mankind may be challenged for the parallel of such a first choice as Lincoln. There is not a throne, nor a dukedom, nor earldom, nor one noble family of Europe, whose founder was not a man of mark. It will be reserved for the North, if it submits to Lincoln's pretensions, to appear among the monarchies of the earth with a King whom no respectable noblemen in the Old World would like to