Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.