. . . as Napoleon truly observed in his New Year’s day
speech. Prussia buried a King, the
effete Sultan of Turkey sank into the grave, the Emperor of China was struck
down, Portugal lost a youthful and noble sovereign. The future historian of 1861 will not, as we
hope, esteem it beneath his dignity to include a line of obituary for the dusky
sovereigns of Dahomey and Madagascar. An
assassin’s had strove to take the life of the New King of Prussia and a crack brained
Athenian enthusiast made an attempt of a similar nature upon the Queen of
Greece.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2
