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I Tell Our Sisters In The South That So Far As Tennessee Is Concerned She Will Not Be Dragged Into A Southern Or Any Other Confederacy Until She Has Had Time To Consider; And Then She Will Go When She Believes It To Be Her Interest, And Not Before.

I Realized, There Are People Out There Who Can Beat Me, Want To Beat Me. And Unless I Continue To Innovate And Evolve, I Am Going To Learn A Painful Lesson From Someone Who Has.

I Have Performed My Duty To My God, My Country, And My Family. I Have Nothing To Fear In Approaching Death. To Me It Is The Mere Shadow Of God's Protecting Wing . . . Here I Will Rest In Quiet And Peace Beyond The Reach Of Calumny's Poisoned Shaft, The Influence Of Envy And Jealous Enemies, Where Treason And Traitors Or State Backsliders And Hypocrites In Church Can Have No Peace.

I Have Lived Among Negroes, All My Life, And I Am For This Government With Slavery Under The Constitution As It Is. I Am For The Government Of My Fathers With Negroes. I Am For It Without Negroes. Before I Would See This Government Destroyed I Would Send Every Negro Back To Africa, Disintegrated And Blotted Out Of Space

Who, Then, Will Govern? The Answer Must Be, Man - For We Have No Angels In The Shape Of Men, As Yet, Who Are Willing To Take Charge Of Our Political Affairs.