"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"

"Three millions yearly for manure, But not one cent for literature."

"The Arkansawyers are of the type of the old Hoosiers, Crackers, Pikers, and the Big Smoky mountaineers. The Hoosiers …"

"The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws …"

"The framers of the Constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to…"

"Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general gove…"