A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.