If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.

It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.

My dear Sir, take any road, you can't go amiss. The whole state is one vast insane asylum.

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!