"Am I to be called to account for every lie they put in print throughout the States?
Look to your own family, boy; look to yourselves.

The very stumps of Kentucky and Tennessee cry out ag'in ye! Ay, my tonguey gentleman, I have seen father and mother and three children, yourself for one, published on the logs and stubs of the settlements, with dollars enough for reward to have made an honest man rich, for--" He was interrupted by a back-handed but violent blow on the mouth, that caused him to totter, and which left the impression of its weight in the starting blood and swelling lips.
"Asa," said the father, advancing with a portion of that dignity with which the hand of Nature seems to have invested the parental character, "you have struck the brother of your mother!" "I have struck the abuser of the whole family," returned the angry youth; "and, unless he teaches his tongue a wiser language, he had better part with it altogether, as the unruly member.

I'm no great performer with the knife, but, on an occasion, could make out, myself, to cut off a slande--" "Boy, twice have you forgotten yourself to-day.

Be careful that it does not happen the third time.

When the law of the land is weak, it is right the law of nature should be strong.