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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Presidential election. (search)
sentiment of hostility to the social system of the South, and sustaining a nominee for the first office in the Union upon the one idea of uncompromising war upon Southern rights. Among the partisans of that nominee was an immense body of men who were disciplined and drilled as soldiers, and bore the name of John Brown's Kansas band of fanatics, cut-throats and horse-stealers — viz: "Wide Awakes." Every incident of the campaign of this furious and fanatical party, led on by the arch-traitor Seward and his confederates, was indicative of hatred and vindictiveness towards the South. All sense of obligation to the Constitution and the laws,--all the feelings of reciprocal affection between the people of the North and the South, as descendents alike of ancestors who perilled their blood and treasure for the rights and liberties we enjoy — all regard for the ties of sympathy and interest, the policy of the common defence and general welfare on which the Union itself was founded under an a