| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: followed by a rapid thud of boots on soft ground. A dark form
crossed the gleams from the fire-light. Then a ranger loomed up
to reach the side of the guard. Duane heard whispering, the
purport of which he could not catch. The second ranger swore
under his breath. Then he turned away and started back.
"Here, ranger, before you go, understand this. My visit is
peaceful--friendly if you'll let it be. Mind, I was asked to
come here--after dark."
Duane's clear, penetrating voice carried far. The listening
rangers at the camp-fire heard what he said.
"Ho, Pickens! Tell that fellow to wait," replied an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands
of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon
the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink
to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of
theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
One section of our country believes slavery is RIGHT, and ought
to be extended, while the other believes it is WRONG, and ought
not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
The fugitive-slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the
suppression of the foreign slave-trade, are each as well enforced,
perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde: and elsewhere, who were not slaves themselves, nor owners of
slaves, nor had anything to do with the question really. It was,
undoubtedly, the Abolitionists who set the torch alight, who began
the whole thing. And it is curious to note that from the slaves
themselves they received, not merely very little assistance, but
hardly any sympathy even; and when at the close of the war the
slaves found themselves free, found themselves indeed so absolutely
free that they were free to starve, many of them bitterly regretted
the new state of things. To the thinker, the most tragic fact in
the whole of the French Revolution is not that Marie Antoinette was
killed for being a queen, but that the starved peasant of the
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