NYT, July 28, 1868, p. 4

On the Democrat Party viz. the 1868 Election

Included in Chapter 10:

‘If the North elected Lincoln we will secede,’ was the sum of the Southern argument in 1860…Now ,as then, the old governing class of the South claim for themselves a right to regulate the policy of the Republic, to be the judges of its measures and the interpreters of its Constitution; and they threaten a resort to force if their pretensions are repelled.