Speaking Ill

Via Robert Farley, a brilliant 1863 editorial by The New York Times on what they mistakenly believed to be the occassion of John C. Breckenridge's death. First sentence: "If it be true, as is now positively declared, that a loyal bullet has sent this traitor to eternity, every loyal heart will feel satisfaction and will not scruple to express it."

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/12/speaking-ill/47662/