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showed herself to be still adorned in that hour of an all-devouring atonement.
The great fever came to an end with Appomattox.
The delirium stopped: the plague had been expelled.
The nation was not dead: the nation was at the beginning of a long convalescence.
It is, however, about the earlier symptoms of the disorder that I would speak here, about the presentiments of headache and nausea, and about that dreadfullest moment in all sickness (as it seems to me), the moment when we admit that something serious is coming on.
The struggle between the North and the South began over free speech about the negro, and especially about the right of benevolent people at the North to extend their benevolence to the negro, as, for instance, in their schools, Sunday-schools, hospitals, etc. Now the South sincerely believed that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had morally bound the North not to talk about slavery in private conversation, and not to treat the negro as a human being.
The South had succeeded in imposing this conviction upon the whole North.
β The patriotism of all classes,β wrote Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts, in a message to his Legislature, βthe patriotism β
Boston, the. Atlantic Monthly. Press, 1921.
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