Whom is Representative Riddle describing in this account of the end of the First Battle of Bull Run?

to act quickly in times of danger to the united states

because you have to act quickly if you want to live/survive.

not to sure thinking it would be a hope this

"a shortage of traditional labor created new opportunities in the workplace. a major cause of the internment of japanese americans during world war ii was. racial prejudice. in the early 1940's, the "destroyers-for-military-bases deal" with great britain and the lend-lease act were evidence that the united states."