"Constitutional" Quotations from "And There Was Light" by John Meacham

[David Lockmiller]

On a speaking trip in Kansas, Lincoln tried to calm the storm. John Brown's attack "was a violation of law and it was, as all such attacks must be, futile as far as any effect it might have on the extinction of a great evil," Lincoln said. "We have a means provided for the expression of our belief in regard to Slavery -- it is through the ballot box -- the peaceful method provided by the Constitution." (Page 178.)