New York Herald, “A Contrast,” January 20, 1861

    Source citation
    “A Contrast,” New York Herald, January 20, 1861, p. 4: 5.
    Newspaper: Publication
    New York Herald
    Newspaper: Headline
    A Contrast
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    4
    Newspaper: Column
    5
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    A CONTRAST. – While the people in the Gulf States are busily engaged in furbishing up their muskets and preparing for bloodshed, the politicians in New York and Pennsylvania are busily engaged in getting ready their paper batteries, petitions, applications for office and certificates of services rendered, and are bringing them to bear upon Lincoln with as much sang froid as if the country was not threatened with civil war. This wild hunting for office has been the curse of this country, and it seems that nothing can arrest it. If the Union should be violently torn asunder, the country ruined and laid a deserted waste, the last man left will be an office seeker.

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