All through this war the President has . . .

. . . shown a masterly intellect, clear and far reaching, and that has secured him the confidence of honest and intelligent men of all parties in the North and numerous admirers in the South.  Calm and self-poised amid dangers from foes and [illegible] from friends, he is never moved from his integrity of purpose on the leading questions of the time.  Whatever blunders and follies generals commit, he remains the same impurturbable embodiment of good sense, and acts never in a confused hurry but at the right time, as events have shown and are showing.  As evidence, we need only to refer to his most noted acts of recent date such as his choice of Stanton, his recommendation of compensatory emancipation, his general order for the armies to take the aggressive on the 22d of February, and his personally superintending the movements for the capture of Norfolk.  This last act of his makes one think of the days of good Queen Bess and bluff Old [Hal] when the head of a Nation headed the armies with his presence. –{Anamosa Eureka.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington