It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.

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!