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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?

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?

 
 
 
 
 
 

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