The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!