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.

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.

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

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.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.