Monday, December 25, 1865 — The daily dispatch
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North, will always give them a majority in Con- \
gress and in the Electoral Ckdlege. They will, at
the very first election, take possession of the White
House and the halls of Congress. I need not de
pict the scene that would foftow."
The words italicised at the end of the first
paragraph contain the whole pith of the
speech. "To secure a perpetual ascendancy,