[148] In passages here quoted from Harper’s Weekly, the italics are ours.
[149] We give this passage not only because we think it apt, but also to vindicate the witty Hans from the inept aspersions of the Harper’s critic, who deliberately reaches the solemn opinion that “in Hans Breitman there is nothing funny but the grotesque dress. Translate his poetry into English, and it is, with here and there a solitary exception, the baldest of all commonplaces.”
[150] “Wanted, a Capital.”
[151] “The Crippled American Eagle.”
[152] “There can be no question but the enterprise of holding the Union together by force would ultimately prove futile. It would be in violation of the principle of our institutions.”—Harper’s Weekly, editorial leader of March 9, 1861.
“If the Union is really injurious to them (our Southern friends), heaven forbid that we should insist on preserving it.”—Harper’s Weekly, 1861, p. 146.
[153] “Most of them” (“alterations in the Constitution effected by the Congress at Montgomery”) “would receive the hearty support of the people of the North.”—Harper’s Weekly, March 30, 1861.
“Some practical people, viewing the dissolution of the Union as a fixed fact.”—Weekly, Jan. 26, 1861.
[154] “Is it wise, is it prudent, is it possible to punish it?”—Harper’s Weekly, p. 146, 1861.
[155] “He [Jeff. Davis] is emphatically one of those ‘born to command,’ and is doubtless destined to occupy a high position, either in the Southern Confederacy or in the United States.”—Weekly, Feb. 2, 1861.