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Boston Daily Courier
Dec 18 1860
The election-returns have disclosed the strange fact, that, although over nine
hundred thousand in the minority, in the popular vote, yet that the Republicans
have the control of the government; and some of them propose coercing the people
and the States into a submission to the odious principles of their platform,
which has been, by nearly a million majority, protested against by the popular
vote.
War with the South may suit the West, who have neither commerce nor manufactures
to suffer, and who may ship their pork as well East as South. It may also be
very agreeable to the West to cut off Southern farmers from competing with them
in the monopoly, by land grants to railroads, and homestead grants, of all the
public territories; but we cannot see what profit all this is to bring
Massachusetts. The whole programme of war seems intended to make Massachusetts
foot most of the bills and suffer most of the losses.