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He clearly understood that the Irrepressible Conflict was a Conflict of systems, not a merely sectional and partisan quarrel.
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Watterson describes a historical figure's understanding of the broader implications of the conflict over slavery.
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Lord!” cried the most delightful of liars, “How this world is given to lying.” Yea, and how exigency quickens invention and promotes deceit.
The literary and artistic instinct which attained its fruition in him had percolated through the veins of a long line of silent singers, of poets and painters, unborn to the world of expression till he arrived upon the scene.
O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!
His humor though perennial was subdued; his wit keen and spontaneous, never acrid or wounding.
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