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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The military despotism in the United States --speech of Senator Saulsbury . (search)
The military despotism in the United States--speech of Senator 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, (Mr. Howard,) had said that the time was unpropitious for the passage of such a bill as this.
He would "That the soldier was too honest, and loved his country too much, to be guilty of such an act;" but confidence was a plant of slow growth.
In this connection, Mr. Saulsbury quoted from Gibbons's "Decline and Fail of the Roman Empire," showing that fifteen thousand well armed and disciplined men kept in subjection ten millions of u