7-15-1856: "for such is the natural end of Abolition progress. Fanaticism must defend its beneficiaries–first, by sending the Federal army to protect them, and ultimately by giving them the right to bear arms . . . How can civil war be avoided, if honorable men collude in such devilish machinations?”

There are little lies, big lies, and big fat lies, “we shall sink to the level of the freed African and take him to the embrace of social and political equality and fraternity: for such is the natural end of Abolition progress. Fanaticism must defend its beneficiaries–first, by sending the Federal army to protect them, and ultimately by giving them the right to bear arms . . . that at this present time they have at different points in the Territory, banded together in actual encampment, large numbers of armed men, subsisted and kept together by their Aid Societies. . . . How can civil war be avoided, if honorable men collude in such devilish machinations?”, July 15, 1856