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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The military despotism in the United States--speech of Senator Saulsbury. (search)
or 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,ent; provided, too, they would support his proclamation!--Mighty man! Oh! what meat is this on which our modern Casar feeds that he has grown so great! He quoted at length from Plutarch's "Life of Pompey," and drew a parallel between Casar and Lincoln. It would be seen that our President was not the first man in the world who had sent soldiers to control elections. He did not know whether the President had read Plutarch, though he understood that he was well versed in Shakespeare, and consi