'Tis the bravest test, the noblest test, and 'tis the test that offers the surest and greatest victory.

For one armed man cannot resist a multitude, nor one army conquer countless legions; but not all the armies of all the Empires of earth can crush the spirit of one true man.

And that one man will prevail.
III But so much have we felt the need of resisting every slavish tendency that found refuge under the name of Moral Force, that those of us who would vindicate our manhood cried wildly out again for the physical test; and we cried it long and repeatedly the more we smarted under the meanness of retrograde times.

But the time is again inspiring, and the air must now be cleared.

We have set up for the final test of the man of unconquerable spirit that test which is the first and last argument of tyranny--recourse to brute strength.