"...But Sirs, Republicans are not fools, and although I may be unable to reach but a small number of those to whom you have sent your mephitic production, I think you will find that with a record before them of five years of public service, which has received the indorsement of every Republican, and Democratic paper also, in this district, they will regard your circular with the contempt and indignation with which fair-minded men always look upon the methods of the assassin...."
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