"Come now, a
revolutionist and two abolitionists should do much. You still can
fight, though they have taken away your sword."
"Some say that the courts will settle these mooted points,"
Carlisle went on; "others, that Congress must do so. Yet others
are unwilling that even the courts should take it up, and insist
that the Constitution is clear and explicit already. These
Southerners say that Congress should make an end to it, by
specifically declaring that men have a right to take into any new
country what they lawfully own--that is to say, these slaves;
because that territory was bought in common by North and South.
The South is just as honest and sincere as the North is, and to be
fair about it, I don't believe it's right to claim that the South
wants the Union destroyed. A few hotheads talk of that in South
Carolina, in Mississippi, but that is precisely what the sober
judgment of the South doesn't desire. Let us match those
secessionists against the abolitionists," he grinned.
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