"... and last committeeman was the reigning Governor of the state,
Waller, a smooth-tongued liar and moral coward."

"As for myself I was inwardly boiling all the time:
I was scalping Ward, flaying him alive, breaking him on the wheel pounding him to jelly,
and cursing him with all the profanity known to
the one language that I am acquainted with,
and helping it out in times of difficult and distress with odds and ends of profanity
drawn from the two other languages
of which I have a limited knowledge."

"He told what I have before orelated about the robberies perpetrated upon him
and upon all the Grant connection by this man Ward,
whom he had so thoroughly trusted,
but he never uttered a phrase concerning Ward
which an outraged adult might not have uttered concerning an offending child.
He spoke as a man speaks who has been deeply wronged
and humiliated and betrayed;
but he never used a venomous expression or one of a vengeful nature."

"'He was not as bad as the other' - meaning Ward.
It was his only comment.
Even his writing looked gentle."

"This was just like General Grant. It was absolutely impossible
for him to entertain for a moment any proposition
which might prosper him at the risk of any other man."

-In the words of late Samuel L. Clemens;
pen name Mark Twain.