. . . Colonel Benton warned the country to beware of Jeff. Davis
in the following language:
“He is a martinet, pulled up with West Point science,
dogmatical and pragmatical, within his circle; but that circle is a narrow one,
and he moves uncontrolled within it. He
is an avowed secessionist.”
– Published in The
Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2
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