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The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
atement of it is, that if the Black Republicans elect a President, you won't stand it. You will break up the Union. That will be your act, not ours. To justify it, you must show that our policy gives you just cause for such desperate action. Can you deny that?-- When you attempt it, you will find our policy is exactly the policy of the men who made the Union--nothing more, nor nothing less. Do you think you are justified to break up the government rather than to have it administered by Washington, and other great and good men who made it and administered it? If you do, you are very unreasonable, and more reasonable men cannot, and will not submit to you. While we elect a President, it will be our duty to see that you submit. Old John Brown has been hung for treason against a State. We cannot object, even though slavery is wrong. That cannot excuse violence, bloodshed and treason. It could avail him nothing that he might think himself right. So, if constitutionally we elect a