He lived to vote for that grand act of enfranchisement that wiped from the escutcheon of the nation the leprous stain of slavery, and to know that the Constitution of the United States no longer recognized and protected property in man.
Creswell celebrates the historic moment of enfranchisement and the abolition of slavery in America.
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Speaker, I am here this day to speak, and I say that I do speak, for the people of Maryland, who are loyal to the United States; and that when my judgment is contested, I appeal to the people for its accuracy, and I am ready to maintain it…
Before the expiration of three months events had demonstrated his wisdom and our folly, and other paragraphs from that same speech became the fighting creed of the Union men of Maryland.
You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.
They were on their knees praying for peace, ignorant that bloody war had already girded on his sword.
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