Burlington, June 30, ’60.
It is interesting, is it not, to see Seward's “irrepressible
conflict” so speedily illustrated at Baltimore. The quadrangular fight may
result in the election of the worst man of the eight, General Lane of Oregon;
but I hope that Lincoln will make a good enough run to prevent the choice going
to the House or Senate. The Republican party is now so old that its followers
have fallen into line, — and many will now vote for the candidate who four
years ago would have gone for Douglas, had he stood in his present attitude
towards the South. The wisdom in selecting Lincoln is now apparent, — a man
from any other section of the country would have stood no chance in the
Northwest against Douglas, whose personal popularity is immense.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 190-1
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