"But in digging for a spring men may find suddenly a torrent that they
cannot control. It suddenly bursts its bounds and banks, and rushes
headlong down, carrying everything before it in a resistless whirl of
devastation, tearing great trees up by the roots, crashing through
villages and towns and factories, girding the world with a liquid tempest
that sends the works of man spinning down upon its dreadful course, till
it plunges into the abyss, a frantic chaos of indiscriminate destruction,
storm, and death.
"Can any of us here present say that he will, that he dare, take upon
himself the responsibility of electing a President from motives of party
prejudice? Having it in our power to agree upon the very best man, would
any of us remember this day without shame if we disgraced those who trust
us, by giving our votes to a mere party candidate? The danger is great,
imminent, universal. We can save the country from it, I would almost say
from, death itself, by acting in accordance with our honest convictions.
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