Newport, 3 June, 1860.
. . . Are you pleased that Mr. Everett has consented to take
the nomination for the Vice Presidency? His letter reminds me of the
advertisement of “the retired Doctor whose sands of life have nearly run out.”
We have patriots left. In the view of the Union party it would seem that the
Union itself were in a similar condition to the English gunboats, planks
rotted, sham copper bolts not driven half through, and a general condition of
unsoundness making them wholly unsafe in a sea.
Yet if the Vengeur should go down under the waves, Bell and
Everett will be seen upon the upper deck waving their hands in a graceful
oratorical way, and crying with melancholy voice, Vive la République....
SOURCE: Sara Norton and M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Letters
of Charles Eliot Norton, Volume 1, p. 208-9
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