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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They spoke with freedom before a boy what they would have repressed before a man.
Poor Maryland! cursed with slavery, doubly cursed with traitors!
He was the best scholar I ever met for his years and active life, and was surpassed by very few, excepting mere book-worms.
I knew something of books, nothing of men, and I went forth like Adam among the wild beasts of the unknown wilderness of the world.
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