The Northern radicals were wont to say, “Let the South go,” the more profane among them interjecting “to hell!” The Secessionists liked to prod the New Englanders with what the South was going to do when they got to Boston.
Watterson captures the provocative rhetoric exchanged between Northern radicals and Southern Secessionists.
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From the hour Abraham Lincoln crossed the threshold of the White House to the hour he went thence to his death, there was not a moment when he did not dominate the political and military situation and his official subordinates.
I have put up my last dollar south of the Potomac.” Then I went to the King of the transcontinental railways.
One cynic tells us that “A statesman is a politician who is dead,” and another cynic varies the epigram to read “A politician out of a job.” Patriotism cries “God give us men,” but the parties say “Give us votes and offices,” and Congress…
His humor though perennial was subdued; his wit keen and spontaneous, never acrid or wounding.
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