Between 1861 And 1865, Americans

Our American Heritage Is Greater Than Any One Of Us. It Can Express Itself In Very Homely Truths; In The End It Can Lift Up Our Eyes Beyond The Glow In The Sunset Skies.

In This Respect Early Youth Is Exactly Like Old Age; It Is A Time Of Waiting For A Big Trip To An Unknown Destination. The Chief Difference Is That Youth Waits For The Morning Limited And Age Waits For The Night Train

Here Was The Greatest And Most Moving Chapter In American History, A Blending Of Meanness And Greatness, An Ending And A Beginning. It Came Out Of What Men Were, But It Did Not Go As Men Had Planned.

Beneath Everything Else, North And West, There Ran A Profound, Unvoiced, Almost Subconscious Conviction That The [american] Nation Was Going To Go On Growing-in Size, In Power, In Everything A Man Could Think Of-and In That Belief There Was A Might And A Fury That Would Take Form Instantly At The Moment Of Shock.

Men See Things Late, And It May Be That At Times An Evil Fate Drives Them On.