midnight
I doubt if they will , in our time at least , learn to see far enough to realize that who captures their liberty captures them and , therefore , their dollars too . By my defeat in that typical contest I was disheartened , embittered , -- and ruined . For , in my enthusiasm and confidence I had gone deeply into debt for the expenses of the Reform campaign . At midnight of election day I descended into the black cave of despair . For three weeks I explored it . When I returned to the surface , I was a man , ready to deal with men on the terms of human nature . I had learned my lesson .