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The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
necessary thing to be done. The decision of the President will be submitted to, if its wisdom cannot be seen. This is no mob government. It is constitutional monarchies which in this century have been at the mercy of mobs.--Neither Wendell Phillips nor the Satanic Press will persuade American citizens to play the Cromwell role. That was possible in England; it is not possible here. England was also mobbed into the Trent war craze. In America public opinion was all one way. But Secretary Seward's dispatch, and its opposite judgment, had prompt and universal acquiescence. There was no mob government. Partially enlightened public opinion and a strong public feeling even did not govern. It was the Government which governed, and that was what it was made and its officers were elected to do. So now, though Mr. Lincoln has never hitherto thus tried the patience nor so overruled the fixed judgment of the people, his high office is respected and his decision stands. Upon him rests