Record Data
Source citation
"Fletcher Webster," New Orleans (LA) Picayune, October 29, 1856, p. 5.
Newspaper: Publication
New Orleans (LA) Picayune
Newspaper: Headline
Fletcher Webster
Newspaper: Page(s)
5
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Zak Rosenberg
Transcription date
Transcription
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.
Fletcher Webster-"There are but two ideas in the black Republican party, the broken head of Charles Sumner, and bleeding Kansas. With regard to that damaged gentleman, I will not justify the assault, but if I had made that speech, I should have taken care to put an iron pot on my head."