I Only Wanted To Help My People.

There Are Those Who Maintain That In This World Women Have No Right To Interfere In The Affairs Of State, In Politics, In Plots And Counter-plots. Others That Are Who, More Chivalrous, Are Willing To Admit That Women Have As Much Right To Act, Think, And Speak As Men.

If It Is A Crime To Love The South, Its Cause And Its President, Then I Am A Criminal. I Would Rather Lie Down In This Prison And Die Than Leave It Owing Allegiance To A Government Such As Yours.

I Thank God That I Can Say On My Death Bed That I Am A Virtuous Woman.

I Do Not Set Myself Up As An Advocate Of The Woman's Right Doctrine, But Would Rather Appear In The Character Of A Quiet Lady Expressing Her Sentiments, Not So Much To The Public As To Her Immediate Friends.

I Firmly Believe That In This Fiery Ordeal, In This Suffering, Misery, And Woe, The South Is But Undergoing A Purification By Fire And Steel That Will, In Good Time, And By God's Decree, Work Out Her Own Independence.