His friends saw deeper, and knew that beneath the exterior he assumed in his struggles with the world there beat a heart as pure and unsullied, as confiding and as gentle, as ever sanctified the domestic circle, or made loved ones happy.
Creswell describes the deeper emotional qualities of a man often perceived only through his public persona.
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Poor Maryland! cursed with slavery, doubly cursed with traitors!
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
How many of those who have since charged him with being selfish and reckless in his advocacy of emancipation would have shown equal devotion to principle?
He had collected the purest ore of truth and the richest gems of thought, until he was able to crown himself with knowledge.
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