I Have Never Witnessed On

I Have Thought From The Time Of The Cessation Of The Hostilities, That Silence And Patience On The Part Of The South Was The True Course; And I Think So Still. Controversy Of All Kinds Will, In My Opinion, Only Serve To Continue Excitement And Passion, And Will Prevent The Public Mind From The Acknowledgement And Acceptance Of The Truth.

We Have But One Rule Here, And That Is That Every Student Must Be A Gentleman.

So Far From Engaging In A War To Perpetuate Slavery, I Am Rejoiced That Slavery Is Abolished. I Believe It Will Be Greatly For The Interest Of The South. So Fully Am I Satisfied Of This That I Would Have Cheerfully Lost All That I Have Lost By The War, And Have Suffered All That I Have Suffered To Have This Object Attained.

Life Insurance Trusts I Consider Sacred. To Hazard The Property Of The Dead & To Lose The Scanty Earnings Of Fathers & Husbands, Who Have Toiled & Saved That They May Leave Something To Their Families Deprived Of Their Care & The Support Of Their Labour, Is To My Mind The Worst Of Crimes.

Ideas Are Easy To Conceive, Less Easy To Execute.