It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.

I never thought I would be impeached.