Record Data
Source citation
“Who are the Disorganizers?,” Chicago (IL) Press & Tribune, January 31, 1860, p. 2: 1.
Newspaper: Publication
Chicago Press and Tribune
Newspaper: Headline
Who are the Disorganizers?
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
1
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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.
WHO ARE THE DISORGANIZERS?.
Any time within the past four weeks, an organization of the House could have been effected in a single day, had the pro-slavery men of that body been willing to permit the adoption of the plurality rule. But with the Clerk, a tool of Douglas’, to decide upon all points of order, and with a written agreement among themselves to resort to any maneuvers necessary to defeat the adoption of that rule, they have up to this moment proved too strong for Republican endeavor. In the meantime the country suffers and the unnecessary war between the sections grows fiercer and fiercer. Who are the disorganizers?
