Here wuz peace
offered this Congres. Here wuz the tender uv a olive branch. The
President didn't want a quarrel with Congres; he didn't desire a
continyooance uv the agitation wich hed shook the country like a
Illinois ager; but he desired Peece. Congres cood hev hed it hed they
only withdrawed their crood noshens uv what wus rite and what wuz wrong;
ratified, ez they shood hev done, sich laws ez the President saw fit to
make: in short, hed they follered the correct rool when we hev a
Demokratic President, and put the Government in his hands, with an
abidin trust in his rectitood and wisdom, we mite hev avoided this
struggle, and thus wood hev bin peaceful. But this reckless Congris,
bent upon consentrating power in its hands instid uv dividin it between
him and Seward, passed the bill over his head, regardlis uv his feelins!
The responsibility for the dissension rests, therefore, with Congres.
But these questions are altogether too hefty for the Demokratic
intellek, and I fling em out for the considerashen uv the few Post
Masters we get from the Union ranks. To the Dimocrisy I Address myself
more partickerlerly.
DO YOU WANT TO MARRY A NIGGER? This ishoo is agin before yoo. Are you in
favor uv elevatin the Afrikin to a posishen where he kin be yoor ekal,
or perhaps yoor sooperior? That ishoo is agin before yoo for yoor
decision, only the danger to yoo is increased.
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