When the rough hand of war had stripped off the pretexts which enveloped the rebellion, and it became evident that slavery had struck at the life of the Republic, unmindful of consequences to himself, he, among the first, arraigned the real traitor and demanded the penalty of death.
Creswell recounts the bravery of a man who called out treason during the Civil War, risking his own safety.
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DAVIS sustained the majority report in an able speech, in which, after urging every argument in favor of the report, he boldly proclaimed his own views, and the duties of his State and country.
The appeal was spurned; and, in the face of its almost godlike gentleness, they who already gloried in their anticipated saturnalia of blood inhumanly and falsely stigmatized it as a declaration of war.
They were far from indifferent to their condition; they felt wronged and sighed for freedom.
He was the best scholar I ever met for his years and active life, and was surpassed by very few, excepting mere book-worms.
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