It Is But The Littleness Of Man

Our Agitation, You Know, Helps Keep Yours Alive In The Rank And File.

Statutes Are Mere Milestone, Telling How Far Yesterday's Thought Had Traveled; And The Talk Of The Sidewalk Today Is The Law Of The Land. With Us, Law In Nothing Unless Close Behind It Stands A Warm, Living Public Opinion.

A Large Body Of People, Sufficient To Make A Nation, Have Come To The Conclusion That They Will Have A Government Of A Certain Form. Who Denies Them The Right? Standing With The Principles Of '76 Behind Us, Who Can Deny Them The Right? ... I Maintain On The Principles Of '76 That Abraham Lincoln Has No Right To A Soldier In Fort Sumter. ... You Can Never Make Such A War Popular. ... The North Never Will Endorse Such A War.

What Is Fanaticism Today Is The Fashionable Creed Tomorrow, And Trite As The Multiplication Table A Week After.

Insurrection Of Thought Always Precedes The Insurrection Of Arms.