The Kentucky Statesman of Lexington, Kentucky on January 6, 1860 warned:
“Means must be taken to overthrow and destroy the Republican party, to defeat its aspirations to power and crush it out as a political organization in the country. Its success will overthrow the government and that issue must be tried in 1860.”
[Dwight Lowell Dumon, Ph.D, Editor, Southern Editorials on Secession, The Century Co., 1931, p. 5]