...possibly can. One thing will catch our eye here and determine our hearts ; another thing elsewhere ; all united, may yet produce spirit enough to lead...Hill, to drive the foe from the city of our rights. " There is one other point. This agitation of unjust law is called an inferior issue. If my argument...

...he lamented that procrastination so abounded. All the existing sectional issues combined, said he, "may yet produce spirit enough to lead us forward, to call forth a Lexington, to fight a Bunker Hill, to drive the foe from the city of our rights." He thought it better to secede at once...

...reopening the foreign slave-trade as an issue which might bring a definite breach. All the mass of issues united " may yet produce spirit enough to lead us...Hill, to drive the foe from the city of our rights." 2 The next year in reply to a query Yancey wrote a public letter: "You ask me if I am a disunionist...

...and insults. "One thing will catch our eye here and determine our hearts; another thing elsewhere; all united, may yet produce spirit enough to lead us forward, to call forth a Lexington, to fight a Bunker Hill, to drive the foe from the city of our rights." 31 The articulation of Southern aspirations...