Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lincoln” in article 3 of The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1864., [Electronic resource]:
...at Kentucky had more to fear from the present Executive than from Jeff. Davis, and that he would support for the Presidency any man on the face of the earth, "excepting a negro," in preference to Mr. Lincoln , occasioned something of a sensation, which, however, as quickly subsided, the Senate setting again into a studied air of inattention and indifference.
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