[ExGeeEye]

Mistake me not: if called upon to do battle for my country, to chance death, to dare dismemberment, to hope for victory without assurance that it will come or that I will see it, I am ready.

To stand in front of the barricades, with nothing but a Gadsden-bearing flagstaff in my hands, shouting at the enemy “shoot me, emmer-effers! Shoot me now!” — that would require the assurances referenced above.

[ExGeeEye]

I invite your attention to #232, above.