Leonard Hodge
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I wish Free Soil was putting up someone this year. Most likely have to go with Lincoln then.
I'll be voting for Mr. Douglas come the fall, as every sensible man should. Not only is he a skilled politician, but I believe that only he can peacefully resolve the current secession crisis and restore balance to the Union.
I voted Lincoln for the same reason John did. I was working the double jack for the railroad when I heard Lincoln debate Douglass and I decided Douglass was a caricature. Lincoln is the one who will help us settle the west and ensure we workers don't have to compete with slave labor for work.
On a sidenote my cousin lives in St. Louis and is saying the Germans are just as irrate about slavery as we are. I am predicting a Lincoln landslide.
I'm voting Lincoln. Slavery is an evil blight on our great republic. Even if the negro is inferior, no man should live in chains. The slave holders are spitting on Jefferson's hopes by not letting the institutuion die. Lincoln has promised to follow the precedent the Founding Fathers set with the Ohio territory by stoping the spread of slavery to the western territories, so he gets my vote.
As to the people who think South Carolina might try to leave over this? They might, but it'll be a repeat of nullification, none of the other states will follow and Lee will march the federal army into Coloumbia and that'll be the end of it.
slavery is clearly a great evil and I wish with all my heart some one would come out fully against it, I have never been shown any prof of the Negro being "lesser" than the white man, clearly the Slave shows him self stronger in body and will than the white man every day, and having heard Frederick Douglass speak better than almost any white man I view that the Negro's Mind is healthy and needs only the water of an education to grow and flower
Stronger in spirit?Who is ruling who?
The average Nergo can't handle such education and even if they did, all it would lead to is race war.
Regardless, Lincoln has my vote.
I'm voting for Lincoln for the following reasons.
1. I've said it before and I'll say it again, we cannot keep calling ourselves a free republic when we practice the institution of slavery. I mean those Autocratic Europeans have banned the practice. If they of all people find it vile then what does that say of our great nation?
Actually, if you believe all that you should be voting for Gerrit Smith, not Lincoln.
Lincoln never proposed to interefere with slavery in the states where it currently existed, and even affirmed the constitutional duty to return runaway slaves. He did hope, however, that slavery would die some sort of "natural death" if not permitted to expand.