We may doubt, and with reason, whether anything he might have said could have strengthened the slight hold which such a theory then had in the minds of the people, but it would have brought the need of reform strikingly before the country to bear, in time, ripe fruit.
This passage reflects on the potential impact of advocating for reform, even if the public was not yet receptive.
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He set the custom of dictating bills in chancery to an amanuensis, doing it with such accuracy that a word had seldom to be changed.
Its attitude was strong, defiant, and its only purpose apparently was to create a public sentiment hostile to the extension of slavery.
I discerned also unmistakable evidences of stern integrity, earnest patriotism, and unswerving fidelity.
In less than twelve months we shall be in war, and that the bloodiest in history.
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