"The Constitution is a Dimmycratic machine, and it's got to be run as a Dimmycratic machine, or it won't run at all !" — Majer Jack Downing to Lincoln. Entered according to Act of Congress, by Bromley & Co. , in the year 1864, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. Downingville , July 15, 1864. To the Editors of the Da-Book : Surs : I got your letter tellin me that Mister Bromley and Kumpany wanted to