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Talent Without Tact Is Only Half Talent.

If, On A Full And Final Review, My Life And Practice Shall Be Found Unworthy Of My Principles, Let Due Infamy Be Heaped On My Memory; But Let None Be Led Thereby To Distrust The Principles To Which I Proved Recreant, Nor Yet The Ability Of Some To Adorn Them By A Suitable Life And Conversation. To Unerring Time Be All This Committed.

We Should Not Care Much Whether Those Thus United (against Slavery) Were Designated 'whig,' 'free Democrat' Or Something Else; Though We Think Some Simple Name Like 'republican' Would More Fitly Designate Those Who Had United To Restore The Union To Its True Mission Of Champion And Promulgator Of Liberty Rather Than Propagandist Of Slavery.

While The Right Of Suffrage Is Conceded To Thousands Notoriously Ignorant, Vicious, And Drunken, ... A Constitutional Denial To Black Men, As Such, Of Political Rights Freely Secured To White Men, Is Monstrously Unjust And Irrational.

The Republic Needed To Be Passed Through Chastening, Purifying Fires Of Adversity And Suffering: So These Came And Did Their Work And The Verdure Of A New National Life Springs Greenly, Luxuriantly, From Their Ashes.