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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Lincoln's tour — another speech. (search)
hen we do as we say beat you, you perhaps want to know what we will do with you. I will tell you, as far as I am authorized to speak for the opposition what we mean to do with you. We mean to treat you as near as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson and Madison treated you. We mean to leave you alone, and in no way to interfere with your institutions; to abide by all and every compromise of the Constitution; and in a word, coming back to the original proposition, to treat you so far as degenerate men, if we have degenerated, may, according to the example of those noble fathers, Washington, Jefferson and Madison. We mean to remember that you are as good as we; that there is no difference between us other than the difference of circumstances. We mean to recognize and bear in mind always that you have as good hearts in your bosoms as other people, or as we claim to have, and treat you accordingly.' "Fellow-citizens of Kentucky! friends!--brethren may I call you in my new po