Ripley (OH) Bee, "Let Us Frighten Them," August 16, 1860

    Source citation
    "Let Us Frighten Them," Ripley (OH) Bee, August 16, 1860, p. 2: 6.
    Original source
    Charleston (SC) Mercury
    Newspaper: Publication
    Ripley Bee
    Newspaper: Headline
    Let Us Frighten Them
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    6
    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.

    LET US FRIGHTEN THEM. – This is virtually the language of a portion of the Breckinridge party at the South, spoken with reference to the Republicans. As an instance, we copy the following deliberate statement from the Charleston’s Mercury’s review of the political aspects of the times, and we bespeak for it the candid attention of all our readers:

    The Presidential election turns upon a single fact. If the Northern people believe that the Southern people will dissolve their connection with them, should the Black Republican party succeed in electing Lincoln to the Presidency – Lincoln will be defeated. Should they, on the contrary, believe that the Southern people will submit to Black Republican domination, by the election of Lincoln to the Presidency – Lincoln will be elected.

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