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Iin in 1850; but both were saved by the patriotie states^inea of those days. Bat the wrganijsati^n of a see- tional party, with its candidates for President and Vice Fresident from the same section, was the culmination of the bickerings and wran- glings to wliich I have referred, and the fatal day for the American Republic. It was not (he fact tbat the individual, Mr. Lincoln, had been sleeted President that caused that profound agitation which was wituesseil in the South, after the election of... 18G0 ; but it was the cir- cumstance that tne dogmas of the Abolition party and their reproaches of the Southern people and Southern institutions, had been en- dorsed by a majority of the Northern people. And here I condemn Mr. Lincoln and his party leaders for not attempting to assuage these fears and passions. I condemn them for not en- deavoring to save the country by peaceful means, when they could have saved it without the sacri- fice of honor or principle. Alter the election of Mr. Lincoln, had he, in view of the alarming in- dications in the South, turned his face toward that noble band of Southern patriots who were resisting the tide of secession, and said : "Go on, gentlemen, you are right; and when I come into the Presidential chair I shall act as the President ot the whole country, and not alone of that section that elected me ; the Constitu- tion shall be my guide, and on all points of dis- pute as to its meaning, I shall accept that mean- ing at the hands of the Supreme Court — the tribunal authorized to define its intentions" — had Mr.
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