...he free press, untrammelled, for one element, and whatever cannot bear that must be thrown away. [Applause.] For two generations, the experiment went on; and when Lincoln went to Washington, South Carolina saw the handwriting on the wall,--the handwriting as of old,--that the free press had conquered, and that slavery was sinking, like a dead body, to the bottom; and she said, practically: I know I mad...