Speech before the Republican State Convention at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 1, 1861. With Appendix.
Therefore take heed …
How you awake the sleeping sword of war:
We charge you, in the name of God, take heed!
Shakespeare, King Henry V., Act I. Scene 2.
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the Law of Liberty.—Epistle of James, ii. 12.
This speech, at the time of its delivery, was entitled in some quarters “Emancipation the Cure of the Rebellion,” which certainly showed an appreciation of its meaning. In the pamphlet edition another title was adopted, argumentative in form, and intended to suggest the same conclusion,—“Union and Peace, how they shall be restored.” It was made at the annual State Convention of the Republican party of Massachusetts.