Speech of the Hon William B Reed On the Presidential Question
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I am not, I think, overstating this. I have no disposition to misconstrue either what Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Seward, or Mr. Sumner, or any one else has said, but I ask any candid friend of either, to take the aggregate speech- making of a fortnight ago at Boston and Springfield, — to take one as a gloss on the other, — Seward's Coke on Lincoln's Littleton, — and explain to me its other and truer meaning; and if there be one, or if, as sometimes happens, but not often, with an expert rhetorician lik...e Mr. Seward, or a rough, plain- spoken man like Mr. Lincoln, there be no meaning at all in these phrases, I shall be most happy to admit I have done injustice. The sad conviction presses on me, that the animating spirit of the Re- publican party, however individuals may honestly disclaim it, is anti-slavery fanaticism, enthusiastic sentimentalism, founded on the false ethical principle that slavery, as it exists in this country is wrong, per se, and that under the obligation of the higher law, to which Mr.
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