We are convinced that there is no sincerity in any of the parties to this
singular transaction. The rebels
naturally feel a deep interest in our presidential election, and their
emissaries are in Canada with a view to influence its result. The unflinching purpose of their leaders is
separation, and to this end they are plotting to divide the Democratic party at
Chicago, as they divided it at Charleston in 1860.
P. S. Since writing the above we have received the papers that passed in
this odd negotiation; and, if the subject were not to serious for laughter, we
should go into convulsions. That dancing wind-bag of popinjay
conceit, William Cornell Jewett, has achieved the immortality he covets; he has
reversed the adage about the mountain in labor bringing forth a ridiculous
mouse—the mouse has brought forth this ridiculous mountain of
diplomacy. This is Jewett’s doings, and it is marvelous in our eyes! He
got Greeley and the President’s private secretary to the Falls on a fool’s
errand, and made even the President an actor in this comedy; he has bade each
of them play the part so well suited to himself, of
—“A tool
That knaves do work
with, called a fool.”
Sublime impudence of George Sanders! Enchanting simplicity of
Colorado Jewett! “But—ah!—him”—how, oh benevolent Horace, shall we
struggle with the emotions (of the ridiculous) that choke the utterance of THY
name? Greeley and Jewett—Jewett and Greeley; which is Don Quixote
and which is Sancho Panza?
SOURCE: The Mount Vernon Republican,
Mount Vernon, Ohio, Tuesday, August 9, 1864, p. 2
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