At the time that he was a Republican I was a rebel; but by the time he had become a rebel I was become (temporarily) a Republican.

The Clemenses have always done the best they could to keep the political balances level, no matter how much it might inconvenience them.

I did not know what had become of Sherrard Clemens; but once I introduced Senator Hawley to a Republican mass meeting in New England, and then I got a bitter letter from Sherrard from St.Louis.He said that the Republicans of the North--no, the "mudsills of the North"-- had swept away the old aristocracy of the South with fire and sword, and it ill became me, an aristocrat by blood, to train with that kind of swine.

Did I forget that I was a Lambton?
That was a reference to my mother's side of the house.

As I have already said, she was a Lambton--Lambton with a p, for some of the American Lamptons could not spell very well in early times, and so the name suffered at their hands.