WASHINGTON, July 9,
1850.
It is a sad hour.
News has just come from the White House that the President is dying. If he
dies, it will be a calamity that no man can measure. His being a Southern man,
a slaveholder, and a hero, has been like the pressure of a hundred atmospheres
upon the South. If he dies, they will feel that their strongest antagonist has
been struck from the ranks of their opponents; and I fear there will not be
firmness nor force enough in all the North to resist them. The future is indeed
appalling.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 307
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