The fate of Tyrants.
In Europe, the man who undertakes to usurp supreme power, expects to encounter all the hazards of a failure, including his own life and fortune, and we see no reason why the usurper at Washington should be an exception. He has trampled the American Constitution under his feet, he has threatened with the gallows not only our President and Cabinet, but every man found in arms and giving aid and comfort to our cause, and his subservient Congress has passed a law giving supreme power of life and death, without judge or jury, to every Northern military commandant in an ‘"insurrectionary"’ State. And yet the infamous usurper who has instituted a worse despotism than that of Russia in the place of American Constitutional Liberty, expects to escape all personal responsibility for his crimes. The unheard of wretches who threaten Southern men with these horrible penalties for defending their homes and firesides, expect to receive in return the greatest indulgence and consideration. We trust they will be mistaken. We shall not wonder if the usurper, and his minions of the Cabinet, shall be reached yet in the midst of their guards. If Charles the 1st, a better man and more merciful ruler than Lincoln, and the best of his Cabinet, had his Cromwell; if CÆsar, a king of Nature's making, had his Brutus, what may this usurping ape, Lincoln, expect? For himself, and for Seward, his chief counsellor, the subtle and unscrupulous friend, who is responsible for all the woes and blood shed of this war, there must be a future retribution. Men will rise up who are willing to take their lives in their hands; who can wait long and watch sleeplessly; men who can surpass even the subtlety and secretiveness of even Lincoln and Seward, till they obtain an opportunity to rid the earth of such monsters.
