Shall we tamely act under the lash of this tyranny of the press?...
Albert Beveridge: “Shall we tamely act under the lash of this tyranny of the press?...”
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Beveridge critiques the press's influence on public opinion and governance.
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These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.





