hich that movable property of
yours can't come over here any more, to the danger of your losing
it? Do you think you can better yourselves on that subject by
leaving us here under no obligation whatever to return those
specimens of your movable property that come hither? You have
divided the Union because we would not do right with you, as you
think, upon that subject; when we cease to be under obligations to
do anything for you, how much better off do you think you will be?
Will you make war upon us and kill us all? Why, gentlemen, I think
you are as gallant and as brave men as live; that you can fight as
bravely in a good cause, man for man, as any other people living;
that you have shown yourselves capable of this upon various
occasions; but man for man, you are not better than we are, and
there are not so many of you as there are of us. You will never
make much of a hand at whipping us. If we were fewer in numbers
than you, I think that you could whip us; if we were equal, it
would likely be a drawn battle; but being inferior in numbers, you
will make nothing by attempting to master us.

The Hon. W.M. Dickson, whose interesting account of Lincoln's first
visit to Cincinnati and the disappointments attending it has already
been given in this narrative, says of this second visit as contrasted
with the obscurity of the first: "Lincoln returned to the city with a
fame wide as the continent, with the laurels of the Douglas contest on
his brow, and the Presidency almost in his grasp. He returned, greeted
with the thunder of cannon, the strains of martial music, and the joyous
plaudits of thousands of citizens thronging the streets. He addressed a
vast concourse on Fifth Street Market; was entertained in princely style
at the Burnet House; and there received with courtesy the foremost
citizens, come to greet this Western rising star."

In December of the same year Lincoln visited Kansas and addressed the
people of that troubled State upon the political questions then before
the country. At Leavenworth, Atchison, Elwood, and other places, he was
met by large gatherings of eager listeners who were charmed and
convinced by his fresh and reassuring utterances. His journeys were
complete ovations, and he returned to Illinois leaving a host of new
friends behind him. As several of Lincoln's biographers make no
reference to his Kansas visit, and