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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The military despotism in the United States--speech of Senator Saulsbury. (search)
of the avenue found it necessary to send armed forces into a State to prevent a free people from expressing their love for a free Constitution, made by the fathers, and under which they still desired to live. Their only disloyalty arose from the fact of their following in the precepts of their fathers. Was he asked to support a new Union under the oath he took? Was he asked to enter the new house built to Butler on the ruins of the old fabric built by Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison? His people did not desire to enter the beauteous palace of Archbishop Butler, in spite of the adornments which he picked up in the Gulf of Mexico. They did not desire to look into the costly mirrors, nor to hear the strains of the music from stolen instruments. They preferred the good old strains which came up from the past, which they have heard in infancy and manhood — the music of the Union and the Constitution; and for a declaration of this kind alone have the people of what was onc