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225. 3 Rhodes, vol iv, 166. PARTY ESTRANGEMENT 233 age citizens whom he represented were caught on the conservative centre, while Seymour, with more genius and more daring for mischief, precipitated the list of the massive State toward that function of sovereignty which would end in practical disunion. New York has been too often governed by such neutralizing influences to avail of her full relative power in the United States. That this is a fair estimate of the conditions prevail- ing in the m...ind of the North may be inferred from another line of facts. Benjamin R. Curtis, endowed with the most serene judicial intellect since John Marshall, had been a loyal Republican, vigorously supporting the administration. October 26, 1862, he published a pam- phlet on " Executive Power. " After reciting the facts, he pronounced of the President : "He has superadded to his rights as commander the powers of a usurper, and that is military despotism. " If any one could have persuaded the North that Lincoln was a military despot, the cool and patriotic Curtis could have done it.
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