Monday, February 15, 2010

For every little municipal election . . .

. . . in which the Democratic Party is successful the Dubuque Herald announces the fact in flaming capitals, but simple mention is all that it deigns to give our great national victories; thus showing that it regards the weal of its party more than that of the nation.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 24, 1862, p. 2

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