and on the other hand styles Lincoln “a fanatic and usurper laying aside the Constitution of the Country and exercising all the powers of the veriest despot.” To you Lee, he is not sparing in either side. He glorifies Ky. for her stand for neutrality and as he calls it, her position as “peace-maker” and winds up with a declaration that he will never lift his hand against a fellow countryman, North or South. This is all very natural for one who has such near friends both North and South as he has; but in a contest like the present one, there can be no middle ground. He that is not for the “Constitution and the Union” and that unequivocally is against it. Neutrality, when the Government is threatened by traitors is virtual treason.
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and on the other hand styles Lincoln “a fanatic and usurper laying aside the Constitution of the Country and exercising all the powers of the veriest despot.” To you Lee, he is not sparing in either side. He glorifies Ky. for her stand for neutrality and as he calls it, her position as “peace-maker” and winds up with a declaration that he will never lift his hand against a fellow countryman, North or South. This is all very natural for one who has such near friends both North and South as he has; but in a contest like the present one, there can be no middle ground. He that is not for the “Constitution and the Union” and that unequivocally is against it. Neutrality, when the Government is threatened by traitors is virtual treason.
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