Thread:Toodles78/@comment-24596392-20140522092144/@comment-14600979-20140523173614

How can this wiki be preserved? To give a satisfactory answer to this mighty question, it is indipensable to have an accurate and thorough knowledge of the nature and character of the cause by which the wiki is endangered.

It is a great mistake to suppose that our disunity has been caused by a single event or person. THe ties and common interests which bound this community together in one common group are far too numerous and powerful for that

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If the agitation persists, the same problem, with increased intensity, will render those connections null. Then nothing will be left to hold the community together except force.

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We ask for justice, simple justice, and we ought not get any less. We have no compromise to offer but the Wiki Rules, and no  concession or sacrifice to make. We have already surrendered so much that we have little left to surrender.

(Modified speech by John C. Calhoun, 1850.  Read by Senator James Mason of Virginia.)