Your being at the helm will be more than an answer to every argument which can be used to alarm and lead the people in any quarter into violence and secession....

There is sometimes an eminence of character on which society has such peculiar claims as to control the predilection of the individual for a particular walk of happiness, and restrain him to that alone arising from the present and future benedictions of mankind.

This seems to be your condition, and the law imposed on you by Providence in forming your character and fashioning the events on which it was to operate; and it is to motives like these, and not to personal anxieties of mine or others, who have no right to call on you for sacrifices, that I appeal from your former determination, and urge a revisal of it, on the ground of change in the aspect of things."-- Sparks' Life of Washington, i.

480.] [Footnote 1014: Napier's 'History of the Peninsular War,' v.

226.] [Footnote 1015: Sir W.Scott's 'History of Scotland,' vol.i.chap.