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"The 'no compromise' policy of the Republican party, which at first had only a few ultramontane advocates, is now the watchword of that entire organization."

The Northern Democratic complaint as the Crittenden Compromise — a plan to save the Union by writing slavery permanently into the territories below the old Missouri line — died in the Senate. To this Democratic paper the Republicans' refusal to concede, once a fringe view, is now the party's whole creed, and it is that rigidity, not the fire-eaters, that is breaking the country. The Republican reply is se-027. Verified verbatim against the AHA "Sixteen Months to Sumter."

Read it in the original — New York Daily News, Jan 9, 1861 ↗

"In all human probability James Buchanan will be the last President of the United States. One of the sovereign states of the Union has already declared the compact broken, and her allegiance dissolved."

A Democratic paper in Wisconsin, a thousand miles from Charleston, watching the country come apart and concluding the Union is finished — Buchanan will be its last President. Written the day Alabama seceded (Mississippi and Florida had gone Jan 9–10); by month's end six states were out. Verified verbatim against the AHA "Sixteen Months."

Read it in the original — Kenosha Democrat, Jan 11, 1861 ↗