[cowboyway]

Lincoln was not a dictator

THE Thirty-seventh Congress of the United States has expired, having, in the short session which ended on March 4, passed some of the most momentous measures ever placed upon the statute-book. Those measures, as a whole, are equivalent to the step which, in republican Rome, was taken whenever the state was deemed in imminent danger, and which history calls the appointment of a Dictator. The President of the United States has, in effect, been created Dictator, with almost supreme power over liberty, property, and life—a power nearly as extensive and as irresponsible as that which is wielded by the Emperors of Russia, France, or China.

[Non-Sequitur]

Lincoln was not a dictator

Awwww, why didn't you continue? "One great advantage which the rebels have had over us is the unity of their purposes, and the despotic power of their chief. We are now on a par with them in these respects, and we shall see which is the better cause."

So Davis was a dictator, two? I think you can make a better case for Davis the tyrant than Lincoln the dictator.

[PeaRidge]

In the words of the men of the time, no less.