From “The Necessity of Compromises in American Politics.”

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It is of the very essence of true patriotism, therefore, to be earnest and truthful, to scorn the flatterer’s tongue, and strive to keep its native land in harmony with the laws of national thrift and power.  It will tell a land of its faults as a friend will counsel a companion.  It will speak as honestly as the physician advises a patient.  And if occasion requires, an indignation will flame out of its love like that which burst from the lips of Moses when he returned from the mountain and found the people to whom he had revealed the austere Jehovah and for whom he would cheerfully have sacrificed his life worshiping a calf.  Thomas Starr king.

From “On the Privilege and Duties of Patriotism.”

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Our President is dead.  He has served us faithfully and well.  He has kept the faith; he has finished his course.  Henceforth there is laid up for him a crown of glory, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give him in that day.  And He who gave him to us, and who so abundantly blest his labors, and helped him to accomplish so much for his country and his race, will not permit the country which He saved to perish.  I believe in the overruling providence of God, and that, in permitting the life of our Chief Magistrate to be extinguished, He only closed one volume of the history of His dealings with this nation, to open another whose pages shall be illustrated with fresh developments of His love and sweeter signs of His mercy.  What Mr. Lincoln achieved he achieved for us; but he left as a choice a legacy in his Christian example, in his incorruptible integrity, and in his unaffected simplicity, if we will appropriate it, as in his public deeds.  So we take this excellent life and its results, and, thanking God for them, cease all complaining and press forward under new leaders to now achievements, and the completion of the great work which he who has gone left as a sacred trust upon our hands.  Josiah Gilbert Holland.

From “Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln.”

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Patriotism says, and says it in the interest of peace and economy and final fraternity, “Fight and conquer even at the risk of holding them for a generation under the yoke.”  Fight, tho, on such a scale that there will be no need of holding them; that they will gladly submit again to the rule which makes the republic one and blesses all portions with protection and with bounty.  Fight till they shall know that they kick against fate and the resistless laws of the world!  Patriotism calls on the Cabinet and the head of the nation and the generals who give tone to the campaign to forget the customs and interests of peace till we shall gain it by the submission of the rebels and the shredding of their last banner into threads.  Thomas Starr king.