Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins.

The Declaration That Our People Are Hostile To A Government Made By Themselves, For Themselves, And Conducted By Themselves, Is An Insult.

The Laws Of Man May Bind Him In Chains Or May Put Him To Death, But They Never Can Make Him Wise, Virtuous, Or Happy.

Where Annual Elections End Where Slavery Begins.

I Inhabit A Weak, Frail, Decayed Tenement; Battered By The Winds And Broken In On By The Storms, And, From All I Can Learn, The Landlord Does Not Intend To Repair.

I Do Conscientiously And Sincerely Believe That The Order Of Freemasonry, If Not The Greatest, Is One Of The Greatest Moral And Political Evils Under Which The Union Is Now Laboring ... A Conspiracy Of The Few Against The Equal Rights Of The Many ...masonry Ought Forever To Be Abolished. It Is Wrong - Essentially Wrong - A Seed Of Evil, Which Can Never Produce Any Good.