sickly sentimentality! Such theories, if carried into practice, would
reduce us to a nation of political dwarfs and puny drivellers, fit only
to grovel at the footstools of tyrants."

"I could better bear an insult to our flag than a deathblow to our
nationality. And I feel that our nationality would not survive a
struggle between the sections. There is no danger that we should be
dwarfed in intellect or spirit by practising forbearance toward our
brothers."

"Is treason less criminal because it is the treason of brother against
brother? If so, then must a traitor of necessity go unpunished, since
the nature of the crime requires that the culprit be your countryman.
How hollow are your arguments when applied to existing facts!"

"You forget that I counsel moderation as an expediency, as even a
necessity, for the public good. It were poor policy to compass the
country's ruin for the sake of bringing chastisement upon error."

"That can be but a questionable love of country that would humiliate a
government to the act of parleying with rebellion."

"My love of country is not confined to one section of the country, or to
one division of my countrymen. The lessons of the historic past have
taught me otherwise. If, when a schoolboy, poring over the pages of my
country's history, I have stood, in imagination, with Prescott at Bunker
Hill, and stormed with Ethan Allen at the gates of Ticonderoga, I have
also mourned with Washington at Valley Forge, and followed Marion and
Sumter through the wilds of Carolina. If I have fancied myself at work
with Yankee sailors at the guns, and poured the shivering broadside into