A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, I, 120; editorial from the Richmond Examiner quoted in Rhodes, IV, 8, note. It was probably this same writer who sarcastically commented in another issue of the Examiner on the President's religious professions that “when Hercules saw the condition of the Augean stables, he did not roll up his eyes to Jupiter but turned a river into them.” Writings of J. M. Daniel, collected by Fred S. Daniel, 152. Daniel's Writings were editorials of the Richmond Examiner.
