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John Cochrane, Congressman from New York, made a speech in front of the Exchange Hotel in this city last Spring, in which he declared that if Abraham Lincoln should attempt coercion of the South, a hundred thousand men in New York would shed their blood in her defence. As soon as Abraham Lincoln did attempt coercion, John Cochrane commenced raising a regiment in New York to support that attempt! There are as few true men left among the Northern politicians as there were righteous men in Sodom. We believe that, as a general rule, the private character of a man is the best guarantee of his public virtue. John C. Calhoun was one of the purest and best of men in private life, and so is Franklin Pierce. Such men may err; may be eccentric; may be inconsistent, but they can never be deliberately false.--The greater the strain upon their good faith and honesty, the more firmly and gallantly do they develop the power and integrity of their natures, like some stout ship that never di