&gt; &quot;We have already more than once expressed our opinion, that the first duty of men of all parties, Democrats and Republicans, -- is to lay aside all their political differences and rally to the support of the Constitution and the Union, -- to insist that the Union shall be preserved, not as a matter of favor but of duty: -- and that when this result has been secured, it will be in order to consider what new guarantees or concessions are due to the South and essential to the public peace.&quot;<p>I love how different the writing is in old articles like this.  The complexity of the sentences compared to today&#x27;s news writing is crazy.