Summary

The article set out the opposition to Lincoln on the issue of slavery and abolitionism and was addressed to those who are "leaning toward Lincolnism." Excerpted from a speech by James W. Gerard of New York, the editors agreed that they oppose Lincoln because he maintained that the South and North are incompatible.

EXCERPT:

"It is vain for the respectable and conservative portion of that party to assert that their policy is to prevent the spread of slavery into the Territories now free; that may be their view, and they may sincerely think so, but that is not the limit to the policy of their leaders, (whose dupes they are) if their own acts and speeches are to be credited. The secret circulation of Helper's book in the Southern States was not necessary to keep slavery out of the Territories; a conflict between the free labor of the North and the slavery labor of the South, which they say must be so severe, (irrepressible) that one party or the other must yield, is not necessary to prevent slavery being extended to the Territories."

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"In the heat of the campaign of 1860 both Franklin Democrats and Republicans shifted their emphasis on slavery."