LOUISIANA STATE
SEMINARY, Alexandria, July 22, 1860.
DEAR TOM: . . . The
fact that Congress did not admit Kansas must be a disappointment to you all,
but the certainty of her giving a Republican vote was too much for a Democratic
Congress, with the almost certainty of the election going into the House. Down here
no one thinks of Lincoln. The struggle will be between Douglas and
Breckenridge; the latter will win. . .
If Lincoln should
win I don't know but that something would turn up to my liking, but it won't do
for me to say Lincoln down here. The devil himself would be a more welcome
guest than a Black Republican, yet I have no fears myself of the election of
anybody; if our form of government will not endure any man as president it is
not a fit machine and should break up; but of course I know that no man would
now disturb property in slaves; as to the limitation of its sphere, that is
comparatively a small matter. . .
