Other questions must stand aside till the national authority should be everywhere recognized.

I do not think we greatly cheered him,--it was rather a deep Amen that went up from the crowd.

We went home breathing freer in the assurance we now felt that, for a time at least, no organized opposition to the federal government and its policy of coercion would be formidable in the North.

We did not look for unanimity.

Bitter and narrow men there were whose sympathies were with their country's enemies.
Others equally narrow were still in the chains of the secession logic they had learned from the Calhounists; but the broader-minded men found themselves happy in being free from disloyal theories, and threw themselves sincerely and earnestly into the popular movement.
There was no more doubt where Douglas or Tod or Key would be found, or any of the great class they represented.
Yet the situation hung upon us like a nightmare.