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"The negroes were on top and behind them were the Yankee bayonets.
She could be killed, she could be raped and, very probably, nothing would ever be done about it.
And anyone who avenged her would be hanged by the Yankees, hanged without benefit of trial by judge and jury.

"Free issue niggers are something else, and a good whipping would do some of them a lot of good."

"The more I see of emanci-pation the more criminal I think it is. It's just ruined the darkies.
Thousands of them aren't working at all and the ones we can get to work at the mill are so lazy and shiftless they aren't worth having.
And if you so much as swear at them, much less hit them a few licks for the good of their souls, the Freedmen's Bur-eau is down on you like a duck on a June bug."

But when she was rich-oh, what a beautiful warm-ing thought that was! when she was rich, she wouldn't stand anything she didn't like, do without anything she desired or even be polite to people un-less they pleased her.

"I did kill the nig-ger. He was uppity to a lady, and what else could a Southern gentleman do? And while I'm confessing, I must admit that I shot a Yankee cavalryman after some words in a barroom. I was not charged with that peccadillo, so perhaps some other poor devil has been hanged for it, long since."

I should have liked to see my first grandchild.