Leonard Bacon — American Clergyman born on February 19, 1802, died on December 29, 1881

Leonard Bacon was an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven and was later professor of church history and polity at Yale College... (wikipedia)

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.
'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.