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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 20: Abraham Lincoln.—1860. (search)
one mode of preserving her institution of domestic slavery, and that is, a confederacy of States having no incongruous and opposing elements. Lib. 30.17. The election of a Black Republican President would furnish the occasion. In the House, Singleton of Mississippi declared he would never suffer Lib. 30.17. the army and navy to pass into the hands of such an Executive (with control, too, as Governor Letcher of Lib. 30.17, 18. Virginia added, of the judiciary and the post-offices). His adv Lib. 30.9. Davis, in spite of his having repeatedly pledged Ante, p. 469; himself to disunion in case of Republican success, was the Lib. 30.17. favorite standard-bearer in 1860 with the more besotted Democrats of the North. And even as Singleton was nominating him commander-in-chief of a Confederate army, Davis was reading a letter from ex-President Pierce, Jan. 6, 1860. marking him as the coming man for the national Democratic nomination, and confirming the writer's old assurance tha