Download or read book Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time written by Edmund Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work of his imagination the writer pictures what he apprehends will be the result of the election of Republican candidates. Lincoln is to be succeeded by Seward in 1864 and the prospect of the latter's reelection in 1868 will bring on civil war.