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 the entire matter seems more or less obscured, the following letter, lately written by Mr. Harry W. Stewart, of Carlsbad, New Mexico, is of much interest:  “I have recently seen a reference to Lincoln’s visit to Kansas as if the fact were not clearly established.  In this connection I may offer a personal recollection of my father, James G. Stewart, who was a physician practicing in the little town of Elwood, Kansas, from 1856 to 1860.  He said that both Lincoln and Seward came out and spoke in St. Joseph, Mo., just across the river from Elwood.  On each occasion a large following of ’free state’ men went over to St. Jo to hear the speech and incidentally to support the speaker in case of violence, which had been freely predicted.  According to this reminiscence, Lincoln crossed the Missouri into Kansas, my father having the honor of taking him in a buggy to a small town