Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Election of Mr. Lincoln: A Narrative of the Contest in 1860 for the Presidency of the United States
The one predominant overwhelming idea of the lazy, worthless white pauper, who forms the scum of the Southern towns, is to obtain possession of a Negro whom he may ?og and starve, and by whose labour he may himself he supported. His political panacea is therefore the reopening of the Slave Trade, or in other words, the dissolution of the Union, by which means alone he can ever hope to gratify his darling wish. It is in this class that the only real element of danger to the Confederation is to be found. Statesmen will not ?ing away the labours of a life by destroying that glorious country that they one day h0pe to govern. Landowners.
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