The 1860 Election Became A Referendum On

Early Youth Is A Baffling Time

And There Is The Headlight, Shining Far Down The Track, Glinting Off The Steel Rails That, Like All Parallel Lines, Will Meet In Infinity, Which Is After All Where This Train Is Going.

Like Most Rebel Soldiers, Sam Watkins Owned No Slaves.

Yet There Is A Dignity In The Human Spirit Which Can Become Most Clearly Visible In The Moment Of Defeat And Disaster.

To Learn To Get Along Without, To Realize That What The World Is Going To Demand Of Us May Be A Good Deal More Important Than What We Are Entitled To Demand Of It - This Is A Hard Lesson.