But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
