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