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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Letter from Hon. John Bell. (search)
Letter from Hon. John Bell. A letter from Hon. Jno. Bell, of Tenn., to a mass meeting in Mississippi, is published.--He recounts the wrongs inflicted on the South by the success of a sectional party, but does not think Mr. Lincoln's election sufficient to dissolve the Confederacy, for the following reasons: 1. Mr. Lincoln, it is well known, does not hold extreme opinions on the subject of slavery. It is certain that he has expressed a decided opinion that the South has a constitutional right to demand the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law, and that under certain circumstances he would feel it his duty not to oppose the admission of a new slave State into the Union. His declaration on this point is little satisfactory to the South; but neither that declaration nor the opinion expressed by him on the subject of the Fugitive Slave Law, is at all satisfactory to the extremists of his own party. Upon the whole, if Mr. Lincoln's public declarations on the subject