Having now laid all the historical facts before 

the Person Sitting in Darkness, we should bring him to again, and 

explain them to him.            

We should say to him: They look doubtful, but in reality they are not. 

There have been lies; yes, but they were told in a good cause.                   

We have been treacherous; but that was only in order that real good 

might come out of apparent evil.                                                                

True, we have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have turned  

against the weak and the friendless who trusted us.                                   

We have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic;  

we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest;         

we have bought a Shadow from an enemy that hadn't it to sell;                   

we have robbed a trusting friend of his land and his liberty;                 

we have invited our clean young men to shoulder a discredited musket 

and do bandit's work … but each detail was for the best. 

We know this. 

The Head of every State and Sovereignty in Christendom, 

including our Congress and our fifty State Legislatures, 

are members not only of the church, but also of 

the Blessings-of-Civilization Trust. 

This world-girdling accumulation of trained morals, high principles,

and justice, cannot do an unright thing, an unfair thing, an ungenerous 

thing, an unclean thing. 

It knows what it is about. 

Give yourself no uneasiness; it is all right.

                                                                                                          -Mark Twain