This excerpt is from an editorial in the Pittsburgh Press, dated October 10, 1860. This newspaper endorsed Senator Stephen Douglas for president in the 1860 election. . . . there is much, if not more, of the rampant spirit of disunion in the Black Republican ranks of the North, as there is in the South. . . . [These Republicans] claim the right to make a code of laws for the South, not only in the States, but in the Territories, which shall control or prohibit slavery. . . . If Lincoln were President . . . the Union would be endangered from that hour. Do you really think it’s true that Lincoln and the Republican Party is the cause of the problems, like this newspaper says?

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This excerpt is from an editorial in the Pittsburgh Press, dated October 10, 1860. This newspaper endorsed Senator Stephen Douglas for president in the 1860 election. . . . there is much, if not more, of the rampant spirit of disunion in the Black Republican ranks of the North, as there is in the South. . . . [These Republicans] claim the right to make a code of laws for the South, not only in the States, but in the Territories, which shall control or prohibit slavery. . . . If Lincoln were President . . . the Union would be endangered from that hour.

Do you really think it’s true that Lincoln and the Republican Party is the cause of the problems, like this newspaper says?