I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.