A Quote for the Day

"Mr. Lincoln . . . has been denounced as a despot, as a usurper, as a man who arbitrarily annulled the Constitution, as a magistrate under whose administration all the securities of liberty, property, and even life, were deliberately disregarded and imperiled. . . .  If there was a military despotism in this country, as was declared, he was the despot.  If there were a tyranny, he was the tyrant.  Is it surprising that somebody should have believed all this, that somebody should have said, if there is a tyranny it can not be very criminal to slay the tyrant?"

Harper's Weekly, April 29, 1865