text: Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote , Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away , and the people , the whole people , will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed , though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me .
  
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  Ross wrote an open letter after he voted .