A murder committed in the presence of a thousand negroes could not be lawfully proved in court.

Everything from a toothbrush to a cake of soap might be cited before a jury, but not a human being if his skin happened to be black.
[Illustration: Mr.Watterson's Editorial Staff in 1868, When the Three Daily Newspapers of Louisville Were United into the "_Courier-Journal_." Mr.George D.Prentice and Mr.Watterson Are in the Center.] To my mind this was monstrous.

From my cradle I had detested slavery.
The North will never know how many people at the South did so.

I could not go with the Republican Party, however, because after the death of Abraham Lincoln it had intrenched itself in the proscription of Southern men.

The attempt to form a third party had shown no strength and had broken down.