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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 160 (search)
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142.-the designs of the Nationals, their object being gradually avowed.
The cloven foot of the demon of abolition is fast being exposed, and every day brings to light some new fact going to show that the true animus of the Lincoln war upon the South is a desire to exterminate the institution of slavery.
It has been comparatively but a short time since the wily Seward, speaking as the oracle of his party, proclaimed the doctrine of the irrepressible conflict at Rochester, prophesying the near approach of the millennium of abolitionism, when the soil of America would not be pressed by the foot of a slave.
Subsequently, and but a few brief months back, Mr Lincoln propagated the hieroglyphic thought that very soon artificial weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men.
These authoritative utterances, emanating from men who occupy the highest official positions in their Government, can well be regarded as pregnant with significance.
But later occurrences are no