HANNIBAL HAMLIN

Gentleman, I can't do it. You may be right, and I may be wrong; but I'll tell you what I can do: I can resign in favor of Mr. Hamlin [the Vice President]. Perhaps Mr. Hamlin could do it.

The Confederates will not assassinate me, because they fear Vice President [Hannibal] Hamlin will take my place.

The outrages which abolition fanaticism has continued year by year to heap upon the South, have at length culminated in the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, avowed abolitionists, to the presidency and vice presidency -- both bigoted, unscrupulous and cold-blooded enemies of the peace and equality of the slaveholding states, and one of the pair strongly marked with the blood of his negro ancestry.... In view of the formal declaration, through the ballot box, of a purpose by the northern states to wield the vast machinery of the federal Government as now constituted, for destroying the liberties of the slaveholding states, it becomes their duty to dissolve their connection with it and establish a separate and independent government of their own.

We have the glorious tidings to proclaim, that Lincoln and Hamlin are our next President and Vice President, by overwhelming majorities. They have carried every Free State this side of the Rocky Mountains, except, perhaps, New Jersey, where the vote is close. Douglas will probably carry "nary one!

When I cease to harmonize with the majority ... I feel that I ought no longer to hold that respectable position [Senate Commerce Committee chairman.]

When I cease to harmonize with the majority ... I feel that I ought no longer to hold that respectable position [Senate Commerce Committee chairman.]