There is no question but the country is . . .

. . . sick and tired of the agitation upon the Slavery question.  But the country, before it condemns, will do well to determine who are guilty.  There is one thing which is very apparent to us, viz. that the parties who have made the most noise, are those who have resisted moderate and Constitutional measures in Congress.  The majorities in both Houses, have introduced no revolutionary measures.  On the contrary, they have acted with great moderation and have done nothing that any loyal person has a right to complain of.  The malcontents are the politicians who feel that they must sink or swim with slavery.  They are the agitators.  They are the parties who are howling.  Even the Wendall [sic] Phillips’ Abolitionists are willing to leave Slavery to Providence and the War.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 2