There is no one here, of whatever political faith or lack of faith, who is not a patriot, anxious for our country on these new and untried paths it must walk--most desirous that all its ways may prove ways of pleasantness and all its paths lead to honorable peace.
He asserts that all present, regardless of political beliefs, share a common patriotism and concern for the nation.
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Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?