Men See Things Late, And It May

Here Was The Greatest And Most Moving Chapter In American History, A Blending Of Meanness And Greatness, An Ending And A Beginning. It Came Out Of What Men Were, But It Did Not Go As Men Had Planned.

Men See Things Late, And It May Be That At Times An Evil Fate Drives Them On.

Beneath Everything Else, North And West, There Ran A Profound, Unvoiced, Almost Subconscious Conviction That The [american] Nation Was Going To Go On Growing-in Size, In Power, In Everything A Man Could Think Of-and In That Belief There Was A Might And A Fury That Would Take Form Instantly At The Moment Of Shock.

The Present Moment Is Nice But It Does Not Last. Living In It Is Like Waiting In A Junction Town For The Morning Limited; The Junction May Be Interesting But Some Day You Will Have To Leave It And You Do Not Know Where The Limited Will Take You.

The 1860 Election Became A Referendum On The Southern Way Of Life.