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supposed that in a period of such violent political emotions and such important issues the natural tendency of a newspaper to find unsuspected merits in the candidate of its party would be strengthened; but The Times was not content with expressing its own confidence in Lincoln, it quoted copiously from his speeches of the past as well as reproducing those of the current campaign, and did its best to give the East a proper picture of this man whom an overruling providence, or the accidents of political manipulation, had set up as the candidate of the Republicans. At the same time, its treatment of Stephen A. Douglas won from that gentleman an acknowledgment of "the courtesy and kindness which it alone of the New York journals has shown me."
After the election, when the secessionists at last began to put their theories into practise, Raymond set forth his idea of the national issues in a series of four letters to William L. Yancey of Alabama, whom he regarded as at that time the leading spirit in the secession movement, and who had provoked him by a letter to The Herald. Those letters, published in The Times during November and December, 1860, are perhaps the ablest of Raymond's writings, and after the lapse of sixty years still furnish perhaps as satisfactory an analysis of the underlying issues of the Civil War as has ever been compressed into this space. "We shall stand," Raymond wrote in his concluding letter, published after South Carolina had already seceded, "on the Constitution which our fathers made. We shall not make a new one, nor shall we permit any human power to destroy the old one. . . . We seek no war - we
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