ANSWER TO TWO OBJECTIONS.

Such is the easy answer to objectors who cry out, that Democrats

uniting with Republicans on a Republican platform cannot be trusted,

and that the candidate himself cannot be trusted. The wantonness of

partisanship is too apparent in this pretension. I have considered it

carefully, as a lover of truth, and you have my conclusion. Therefore

do I say, Be not deterred from voting for Horace Greeley because

Democrats will also vote for him, but rather rejoice. Their votes will

be a new bond of peace, and a new assurance for the great principles

declared by our fathers at our birth as a nation.

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