Burlington, May 24, '60.
How does the Chicago platform and nomination please the
Puritans, — it shows pluck, and that, in an American, generally argues
strength. Deliberately I prefer Lincoln to Seward, especially since the
latter's Capital and Labor speech, that shivered a little in the wind's eye.
Lincoln is emphatic on the irrepressible conflict, without if or but.
Had Greeley's pet, Bates, been successful, this State, at least, would have
gone for Douglas. Since Douglas's last rally in the Senate, he stands in a
Samson Antagonistic attitude, which is attractive to the Northwest.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, p. 187-8
