“In God’s name, in the name of Justice and Freedom, and
in behalf of the millions of God’s outraged poor, I thank
you for your noble speech. Brooks could not kill you. God
predetermined that you should live to be mouth for Him,
that this preëminently guilty nation might know their duty,
and that the great idea that lies at the foundation of all
righteous civil government might be vindicated. It is to be
regretted that your proposition could not have been brought
forward before the House had committed itself to that
miserable Amendment.”