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That affair, in its 56 ABRAHAM LliNCOLN philosophy, corresponds with the many attempts, related in history, at the assassination of kings and emperors. An en- thusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures 5 the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon, * and John Brown's attempt at Harpers Ferry, were, in their philosophy, precisely the same. The eagerness to cast ...blame on old England in the one case, and on New England in the other, does not disprove the same- lo ness of the two things. And how much would it avail you, if you could, by the use of John Brown, Helper's book, t and the like, break up the * Felice Orsini was chief of a band of desperadoes that attempted the life of Napoleon III on January 14, 1858. The plot had been hatched in London and many Frenchmen bitterly charged the British with complicity in the crime. t Hinton R. Helper, a North Carolinian, wrote, in 1857, " The Im- pending Crisis of the South : How to Meet It, " a book intended to show that slavery was inimical to the interests of the nonslavehold- ing Southern whites.
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