When I say that I regard slavery in itself as a great moral, social, and political evil, I only use the language which has been adopted by distinguished men, themselves citizens of slave-holding States.
Lodge acknowledges slavery as a significant moral and political issue, reflecting a broader sentiment of the time.
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But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.
He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.
His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.