The Premises and Significance of Abraham Lincoln´s Letter to Theodore Canisius (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Premises and Significance of Abraham Lincoln´s Letter to Theodore Canisius I was anxious to speak with you on politics a little more fully than I can well do in a letter. My main object in such conversation would be to hedge against divisions in the Republican ranks generally, and particularly for the contest of 1860. The point of danger is the temptation in different localities to "platform" for something which will be popular just there, but which, nevertheless, will be a firebrand elsewhere, especially in a national convention. As instances, the movement against foreigners in Massachusetts; in Ohio, to repeal the Fugitive Slave law. In these things there is explosive matter enough to blow up a half a dozen national conventions, if it gets into them. - A. Lincoln to Schuyler Colfax, July 6, 1859. In its issue of May 25, 1859, The Daily Express and Herald of Dubuque, Iowa, the most influential Democratic paper in the state at that time, contained the following racy editorial article, the product probably of the editor´s own pen, Mr. J. B. Dorr´s: The Leaders Panic Stricken A class "in definitions" was reciting its lessons in school once upon a time, where we were present, when the word "panic" fell to the lot of a boy who had a good deal of native talent, but was rather negligent of his studies. This little fellow abhorred the idea of an appearance of failing and would always say something whether right or wrong. The teacher repeated, "John define ´panic´." John hesitated a moment as if collecting his thoughts, and then spoke up, - "Panic, Sir, Yes, Sir, panic is a dog running most scared to death, with a tin pan at his tail." This boy´s definition of panic was forcibly brought to mind yesterday in looking over a number of our Republican exchanges in which we observed the panic struck running and dodging of the Republican leaders of the Northwestern states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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