I am not proud of the transaction, but I would do it again, and worse than that, if I thought it would save this country from disunion.

But of course I did not expect Mr.Carrington to approve it.

I believe he was then carrying out his reform principles by bearing arms against the government." "Yes!" said Carrington drily; "you got the better of me, too.

Like the old Scotchman, you didn't care who made the people's wars provided you made its ballots." Carrington had missed his point.

The man who has committed a murder for his country, is a patriot and not an assassin, even when he receives a seat in the Senate as his share of the plunder.