Something of men I have known : with some papers of a general nature, political, historical, and retrospective . conscience is have struggled long for a peaceful solution of the trouble. Ideprecate war, but if it must come, I am with my country, andfor my country, in every contingency, and under all circum-stances. At all hazards our Government must be maintained,and the shortest pathway to peace is through the most stupen-dous preparation for war. Who that heard the last public utterance that fell from hislips can forget his solemn invocation to all who had followedhis political fortu
Something of men I have known : with some papers of a general nature, political, historical, and retrospective . conscience is have struggled long for a peaceful solution of the trouble. Ideprecate war, but if it must come, I am with my country, andfor my country, in every contingency, and under all circum-stances. At all hazards our Government must be maintained,and the shortest pathway to peace is through the most stupen-dous preparation for war. Who that heard the last public utterance that fell from hislips can forget his solemn invocation to all who had followedhis political fortunes, until the banner had fallen from hishand, — to know only their country in its hour of peril? The ordinary limit of human life unreached; his intellectualstrength unabated; his loftiest aspirations unrealized; at thecritical moment of his countrys sorest need — he passed tothe grave. What reflections and regrets may have been hisin that hour of awful mystery, we may not know. In thewords of another: What blight and anguish met his agonizedeyes, whose lips may tell? what brilliant broken plans, what. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
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