If we must fall, let us stand amid the crash of the falling Republic and be buried in its ruins, so that history may take note that men lived in the middle of the nineteenth century worthy of a better fate, but chastised by God for the sins of their forefathers.
Creswell expresses a desire for future generations to recognize the worthiness of those who lived through the struggles of the 19th century.
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