no one is going there except, perhaps, a few georgias led by alexander h. stevensed to the idea, we cannot wait around. we have to do something now. indeed, i think the fact there was a confederate states of america formed in the first week of february 1861 is due more to stevens than anyone else, who was -- he's the real little giant of american politics at the time. he was only 4'8", weighs 80 pounds, calls himself a half-finished man. but his intellect is towering. and he realized, we have what nathan bedford forest called the bulge on lincoln. lincoln takes office march 4th. we can preemptively act, take the high ground. we can't wait around, can't debate, can't wait, we have to form a new government. a few others from georgia who pushed through the georgia plan, that is, we must take power, that it is to say, we must conduct a revolution within a revolution because we have no power to do what we're going to do. to frame a new government, form a congress, elect a president, choose all the executive departments, essentially be ready to go to war and take this ba