THE REPUBLICAN SUCCESS: Interesting from Mr. Lincoln’s Home---The Latest Cabinet; Editorial-The Right of Secession (11/10/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/10/1860

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Friday, Nov. 9. I find that Mr. LINCOLN is not insensible to any uneasiness in the minds of candid men, nor to any commercial or financial expression of disturbance in the country. If there be such still, he does, so far as at present advised, deem it unnecessary for him to make or authorize any public declaration. He thinks candid men need only examine his views already before the public. Leading Republicans here are opposed to giving the secessionists any satisfaction as to what will be LINCOLN's course. They say: "What is the use of letting your enemy know what you will do when he attacks you? Why tell him, if he strikes you, where you are going to hit him? Why should LINCOLN put his enemies on their guard? Is it not better that the Secessionists should be in the dark as to how they will be treated?" Mr. LINCOLN is still receiving all who choose to call at the Executive Room. The Sucker State is well represented. Honest farmers, sturdy ploughboys, eminent lawyers, judges, drovers -- all are received cordially, and authorized to keep calling him UHcle ABE. Mr. LINCOLN laughs good-naturedly at the various Cabinets made up for him by the newspapers. His attention was directed to-day to Mr. CURTIS NOYES' Wall-street speech, suggesting RIVES, BOTTS, BELL and WINTER DAVIS for Cabinet positions. He laughed, and said he thought that was enough for the South. He said that some were not content with giving him one name, but mentioned two or three for each office. He continues to receive applications for office from Southern men.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

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The Republican Success: Interesting from Mr. Lincoln’s Home---The Latest Cabinet – 2-3
Secession in New York – 3-4
Editorial: The Right of Secession – 4
Mr. Lincoln in Private Life – 4
Brooklyn News – 4
Free Academy Base Ball – 4