The battle has been fought and the victory won! The loud, wild, angry war-whoop of disunion did not frighten the brave sons of liberty. The more terrible the foe, the more valiant the army of the free. Endurance ceased to be a virtue, and resistance became an absolute duty.
Original passage & context
"The battle has been fought and the victory won! The spirit of the people rose with the fierceness of the contest! — The loud, wild, angry war-whoop of disunion did not frighten the brave sons of liberty! [...] Endurance ceased to be a virtue, and resistance became an absolute duty. The times required decisive action; the people rose in their might and applied the proper remedy."
A.K. McClure's Republican organ in Franklin County, Pa. — the defiant-victory register: the election as a refusal to be cowed by disunion threats, making 'resistance' a duty. Verified at Valley of the Shadow (clean transcription). Fragments joined with [...].
Read it in the original — Franklin Repository, Nov 14, 1860 ↗