Editors Press and
Tribune:
The Nomination of
Mr. Seward will necessitate the nomination of Mr. Douglas at Baltimore. If Mr.
Seward is placed on the track, the Slaveholders will postpone their quarrel
with the Northern Democracy until after the November election, when it will
again be renewed, until doughfaces succumb. There is no future event more sure
than the nomination of Douglas, and his receiving the united support of the
Democratic party, if our convention takes Mr. Seward. The nomination of the
latter will draw the broken Democracy together with an adhesion stronger than
Spaulding’s glue. And it is also certain that Mr. Bell will draw off a great
many of the old Fillmore supporters whose foolish predjudices picture Mr.
Seward as an ultra Abolitionist, and Northern fire-eater. Yet I have such
confidence in the force and strength of Republican principles, that I firmly
believe Mr. Seward can be triumphantly elected over Douglas, notwithstanding
the union of the Democracy and the desertion to Bell. I hail from a State where
we know no fear, no such thing as defeat. Give us Mr. S. and victory will perch
on our banners
SOURCE: “Seward vs.
Douglas,” The Press and Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, May
15, 1860, p. 1, col. 1
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