Before that still, calm brow let us take a new baptism. Only lips fresh from such a vow have the right to mingle their words with your tears. We envy you your nearer place to these martyred children of God. I do not believe slavery will go down in blood. Ours is the age of thought.
Hearts are stronger than swords.
These crushed a State. Those have changed the thoughts of millions, and will yet crush slavery. God make us all worthier of him whose dust we lay among these hills he loved. Here he girded himself and went forth to battle. Fuller success than his heart ever dreamed God granted him.