"Is the old Pilgrim spirit quench'd within us?
Stoops the proud manhood of our souls so low,
That Mammon's lure or Party's wile can win us to silence now?
Now, when our land to ruin's brink is verging.
In God's name let us speak while there is time:
Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging,
Silence is a crime."
~ Whittier