On this day, President-elect Lincoln wrote a letter to Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times in response to a request for a policy statement. Lincoln complains that none of the opposition papers picked up and reported Trumbull's speech.
"Has a single newspaper, heretofore against us, urged that speech [upon its readers] with a purpose to quiet public anxiety? Not one, so far as I know. One the contrary, the Boston Courier, and its class, hold me responsible for the speech, and endeavor to inflame the North with the belief that it foreshadows an abandonment of Republican ground by the incoming administration; while the Washington Constiution, and its class hold the same speech up to the South as an open declaration of war against them." (Abraham Lincoln)
"The blackness is gathering so fast that if anything can be done so save our glorious Union it must be done speedily." (Former President Franklin Pierce)
"It is now too late, however, for any statutory concessions to save this Union. (Charleston Mercury)
Governor Brown of Georgia declares a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer.
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