...Disunionists, reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance-such as invocations to Washington, imploring men to unsay...what Washington said, and undo what Washington did. One of those present said that in "the close parts of his argument, you could hear the gentle sizzling...

...a living man nor a dead man — such as a policy of "don't care" on a question about which all true men do care — such as Union appeals beseeching true...Washington did. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government...