Cincinnati Enquirer, "The Cloud in the Distance No Bigger then a Man's Hand" - The First Battle of the "Irrepressible… (1857)
“ Such a President, having his sympathies with the insurrectionists, would be slow to move in arresting their outrages. Delay, indecision and coldness would encourage the very parties against whom he should exert promptly the physical and moral power of the government. And the very fact that there was a President with such sympathies would encourage insurrection all through the slave states. It is for the people, North and South, to say if those things shall be. ”
