Posted on 06/15/2020 6:00:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
NEW-YORK, Saturday Evening, Nov. 11, 1854. GOV. SEWARD: The election is over, and its results sufficiently ascertained. It seems to me a fitting time to announce to you the dissolution of the political firm of SEWARD, WEED and GREELEY, by the withdrawal of the junior partner -- said withdrawal to take effect on the morning after the first Tuesday in February next. And, as it may seem a great presumption in me to assume that any such firm exists, especially since the public was advised, rather more than a year ago, by an editorial rescript in the Evening Journal, formally reading me out of the Whig Party, that I was esteemed no longer either useful or ornamental in the concern, you will, I am sure, indulge me in some reminiscences which seem to befit the occasion.
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People just don’ write like that any more...........................................than goodness..................
June 14, 1860. Holmes County Farmer, Millersburg, Ohio [a Northern anti-Lincoln and anti-Republican paper, if I ever saw one.]
“Why Lincoln was Nominated” (column 1). The nomination of Lincoln was not because of honesty or his rail, but for the purpose of defeating Seward.
“Old Abe on the Mexican War” (column 1). Lincoln declared the Mexican War unconstitutional and wrong. He voted against the granting 160 acres of land to the volunteers who fought in the Mexican War.
“Go it Boots” (column 2) talks about Lincoln having Congress buy several pairs of boots for himself.
“Fillmore Repudiates Lincoln” (column 2, from the Buffalo Commercial Advertizer) Fillmore “depreciates all sectional parties as dangerous to the welfare and peace of the country. In that category he includes the Republican organization.”
“News of the Week” (column 3, from the Philadelphia Journal) “ Lincoln is Seward without Seward’s brains.”
“Mr. Sumner’s Speech” (column 4, from the New York News) “is in keeping with all the speeches of Republicans at this time. It supports the irrepressible conflict doctrines of Seward and the Abolition doctrines of Garrison. It demonstrates beyond the power of caviling that the abolition if negro slavery, in all the States of the Union is the great object and aim of the self-styled Republican Party, and that to accomplish it they are willing to trample the Constitution our fathers gave us in the dust, array State against State in civil war, and incite servile insurrections in those States where slavery of the negro race exists by law.”
“The Tribune on Lincoln” (column 4, from the Buffalo Courier commenting on the New York Tribune). The Tribune argues that Seward and Chase were so thoroughly committed to the Higher Law doctrine, they could not be elected. “The Tribune felt … it was an insult to the intelligence of the whole country to to ask it to vote for a candidate committed to war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt, on the fifteen slave States on the pretext that such is necessary to keep the free States free! Such a candidate is Abraham Lincoln!”
“Lincoln’s Strong Points” (column 5, from the Bellfountaine Gazette) satirizes the Chicago Press and Tribune, “an enthusiastic Lincoln paper,” which had described Lincoln’s physical appearance.
“Be not Deceived” (column 5, from the Statesman newspaper) argues that Lincoln is not a moderate man adverse to the “Higher Law” and “Irrepressible Conflict” doctrines and cites a Lincoln statement that says he basically expressed the “Irrepressible Conflict” in his 1858 “House Divided” speech. The article claims Lincoln “is a man after Joshua R Giddings own heart – a real out and out “higher law” abolitionist.”
Sumner Threats (column 7).
Indian News (column 7, from the St. Louis Republican, a Democrat paper) over 1,000 Navajos attacked Fort Defiance.
Horace Greeley died 150 years ago today.
He went South....................
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