[Baltimore, June 17,
1860.]
Your kind favor of
the 15th is at hand. I have no business requiring my presence in Boston at this
time; so that if I visit it, I must do so at your account . This, I shall, of
course, be glad to do, as much for the pleasure it will afford me personally,
as for the accommodation it may be to you.
Should Douglas be
nominated by the convention now in session in this city the South will bolt,
and Lincoln be elected President; in which case I do not think a movement to
prevent his inauguration at all improbable. What would become of Kansas in the
confusion which would follow such a proceeding, God only knows. Should Douglas
not be nominated, but if the convention unites in some other candidate, Guthrie
for example, then Lincoln would not probably be elected, but the Democratic
candidate instead. The result of this would be that the present application for
Kansas' admission would be discarded, and new proceedings instituted for
another state organization founded on Democratic principles.
SOURCE: Preston
Stearns, The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns, p.
228-9
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