An alert reader (Linda) sent me a copy of a portion of a letter President Lincoln wrote to James T. Hale on Jan. 11, 1861, after the 1860 election, but before he was sworn in as President.
What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten,
before we take the offices.
In this they are either attempting to play upon us, or they are in dead earnest. Either way, if we surrender, it is the end of us, and of the government. They will repeat the experiment upon us ad libitum… They now
have the Constitution, under which we have lived over seventy years, and acts of Congress of their own framing, with no prospect of their being changed; and they can never have a more shallow pretext for breaking up the government, or extorting a compromise, than now.
Hang tough, President Obama. Do not surrender. It would be the end of us and of the government.
I believe that this is something that you should send to all congressman and senators. Especially the ones that just cannot accept the fact that we have a Black person as president.
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