A few schemers have led the country into it to increase the slave-power and make us forget that we threatened England when we couldn't carry out the threat.

And yet, if you look at it broadly, these are the smaller things and they do not last.

The means by which the country grows may be wrong, but its growth is right; it is only destiny, working out through lies and blood, but the end will be good.

It is bound to happen and you can't stop it.

I believe the men who make this war for their own uses will suffer in hell-fire for it; but it is made, and there's only one thing I can see as the thing for me to do.
They've called me every name on earth--and the same with you, too, Crailey--because I'm an Abolitionist, but now, whether the country has sinned or not, a good many thousand men have got to do the bleeding for her, and I want to be one of them.