Bush, speaking to a town hall last week, also did not offer a
full-throated defense of Davis. "[Davis] is sworn to uphold the law and
it seems to me there ought to be common ground, there ought to be big
enough space for her to act on her conscience and for, now that the law
is the law of the land, for a gay couple to be married in whatever
jurisdiction that is," he said.
Melville's THE CONFIDENCE-MAN:
The Herb-Dcotor: "As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a
zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for
all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody's
interest, and therefore, rousing nobody's enmity, would willingly
abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among
mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say."
THE MISSOURIAN: "Picked
and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable
understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for
wrong, but are useless for right."
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