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A Rotten Borough In Florida

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
March
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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I he lime affecta woDdcrment at tha "scatteritig poliey" wbich has sent Gen Gilmore off from Charleston to Florida' It proceeds to assign reasons military for not liking this waste of an expedition. ary lorce, as f the administration haij uothing but military affairs to take care of; with coolnees it adds, Ihat Klorid is uot of the smallest military importjace has no strategetic valué whatever, aa if it had no politieal valua likewis, 'witfc gentle effronterv it statea the obyioui truth that the people of Florida can't afford to &how their loyalty, such aa it is, to flying visitors; and ?ith just too exquisite a naiwta the Timet says: It slill remains difficult to see aDy adcqu object to be acoomplished by the occu. pation, aod trust? there is a wiwiota itt the movemeDt Qther than meets the ey bit for tlie present can't see it." Eefreshingsimplicity! Courtly blindnessf Conveuient amaurosis 1 Ia t iudeed so hard to see "any adequate ob! ject ?" Have we not a new President to elect- oh, simple heart ? And hai no President Lincoln declared his wiHicg. ness to receive and enjoy in the coming election one-tenth of the former rotó just as much as if it were the ten-tentha? And, oh ! native and wonderiDg politfcians, is not Florida a very t ainly peoplefl State and will not a very slight expedítionary foroe, all voters (and not to ba diminished ujucb, since, aa jon aj, Mt rebeta there have no forcé worth speaking of,") amount to the one greatlj desired tenth ? And oh, blind and cordial adukora of our "Honest Abe," will not "the wisdom," now invisible, ficallv "meet the eye" when ifl November nex(, the votes of a single army coifia in Florida help to counterbalaoce awopg th electoral votes the vote of New ' Jfork with her four million inhabitants; ot, the election falling to the House, whollj counterbalauce the vote of the Empire

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Old News
Michigan Argus