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The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], A long walk. (search)
A long walk.
--To stick to a promise made if Lincoln was elected President, Mr. Edward Payson Weston, of Hartford, is going to walk from Boston to Washington.
The distance is 470 miles, and the contract makes it incumbent on Mr. Weston to perform the journey in ten days, and his arrival at the inauguration.
He will leave the State House; in Boston, at noon, on the 22d day of February, and will be obliged to walk forty-seven miles a day until he reaches the Capitol.
A man is to accompany him in a carriage to see that he fulfills his agreement.
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Incidents of the late earthquake in Maine . (search)
The Lincoln platform.
The platform published in this paper a few days since was not the entire paper adopted by the Convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln. It is suggested that, in justice to those who put it forth, the following article of the platform ought to have gone with that which was published:
4. That the mAbraham Lincoln. It is suggested that, in justice to those who put it forth, the following article of the platform ought to have gone with that which was published:
4. That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its domestic institution according to its own judgment exclusively is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political faith depends, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed fo ty that the rights of the States must be protected, cannot conceal their gross disregard of those rights, and their open insults to the Southern States.
If Mr. Lincoln really loves the Union more than his own miserable ambition — if he really respects the rights and equality of the States--he may prove that he does so at once,