He was one of the Southerners who were constantly quoted as heartily "accepting the situation." "I'm whipped," he used to say with a jolly laugh, "the government was too many for me; I'm cleaned out, done for, except my plantation and private mansion.

We played for a big thing, and lost it, and I don't whine, for one.

I go for putting the old flag on all the vacant lots.

I said to the President, says I, 'Grant, why don't you take Santo Domingo, annex the whole thing, and settle the bill afterwards.

That's my way.