"It is the duty of Republicans everywhere to exercise a magnanimous forbearance in their discussions and their acts. They have taken upon themselves the responsibilities of the Government and they are under the solemn obligations to discharge them in the spirit of conciliation and with a sincere desire to harmonize conflicting interests and restore confidence and peace to the country"
"If our Democratic fellow-citizens desire peace, let them aid in the procuring of it. Let them sacrifice for the moment something of their partisan rancor, and disarm the hollow but fatal terror which pervades the South. Not a solitary Democratic journal--North or South--so far as we have seen, has had the fairness to publish extracts from Mr. Lincoln's speeches, showing his exact position on all the controverted questions of the day!"
(New York Times editorial, 11/23/1860)
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