' So she is
called by some--'the most dangerous,' by others."
"Has Kentucky forgotten its gallantry so fully as that? Rumor has
reported the young woman to me as a charming young widow, of
beauty, wealth and breeding."
"Yes, manners, and convictions, and courage--abolitionist
tendencies and fighting proclivities. She is a firebrand--a
revolutionist, fresh back from the Old World, and armed with
weapons of whose use we old fogies are utterly ignorant. Having
apparently nothing to lose whose loss she dreads, she is careless
of all consequences. You, my dear Sir, speak of your moral
adherence to some new party. You consider yourself one of the
lamented Free Soil party, and hope a resurrection. This woman does
not pause there--no. She comes here to Washington, at precisely
the time of our final compromise, when all is peaceful, even
slumberous,--and she preaches the crusade of fire and sword. My
dear friend, if you seek a prophet, here is one; and if you want
leadership in your dogma of no slavery north of thirty-six degrees,
thirty minutes, here is prophet and leader in one!--And, believe
me, one with arguments which make her dangerous to one man, two
men, or any collection of men.
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