You Know I Am Given To Antiquarian

In Avoiding The Appearance Of Evil, I Am Not Sure But I Have Sometimes Unnecessarily Deprived Myself And Others Of Innocent Enjoyments.

My Only Objection To The Arrangements There Is The Two-in-a-bed System. It Is Bad. But Let Your Words And Conduct Be Perfectly Pure - Such As Your Mother Might Know Without Bringing A Blush To Your Cheek. If Not Already Mentioned, Do Not Tell Your Mother Of The Doubling In Bed.

I Am A Radical In Thought (and Principle) And A Conservative In Method (and Conduct).

It Could Be Clearly Proved That By A Practical Nullification [by The South] Of The Fifteenth Amendment The Republicans Have For Several Years Been Deprived Of A Majority In Both The House And Senate. The Failure Of The South To Faithfully Observe The Fifteenth Amendment Is The Cause Of The Failure Of All Efforts Towards Complete Pacification. It Is On This Hook That The Bloody Shirt Now Hangs.

I Regard The Inflation Acts As Wrong In All Ways. Personally I Am One Of The Noble Army Of Debtors, And Can Stand It If Others Can. But It Is A Wretched Business.