Disunion Feed

"The battle has been fought and the victory won! The spirit of the people rose with the fierceness of the contest! — The loud, wild, angry war-whoop of disunion did not frighten the brave sons of liberty! [...] Endurance ceased to be a virtue, and resistance became an absolute duty. The times required decisive action; the people rose in their might and applied the proper remedy."

A.K. McClure's Republican organ in Franklin County, Pa. — the defiant-victory register: the election as a refusal to be cowed by disunion threats, making 'resistance' a duty. Verified at Valley of the Shadow (clean transcription). Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — Franklin Repository, Nov 14, 1860 ↗

"The North has rolled up a decisive majority for ABRAHAM LINCOLN as President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN as Vice President of the Nation. It is the first time in the history of the country that its national head has been elected by a purely sectional vote. [...] Fifteen States are without a President — they took no part in his election, and refuse their consent to come under an administration founded upon a sentiment hostile to their social system. [...] While we fear the worst results to the nation from the election of LINCOLN, we still trust that the threatened calamity may be averted, and our glorious Union still remain."

The Democratic paper in the same town as the Franklin Repository (se-002), same week — the morning-after dread: Lincoln as the first President chosen by 'a purely sectional vote,' fifteen states withholding consent. The Vice-President's name is normalized from the paper's 'HANIBAL.' Verified at Valley of the Shadow. Fragments joined with [...].

Read it in the original — Valley Spirit, Nov 14, 1860 ↗