'Wal, they is enterprisin', 'cause they don't keer for nuthin' 'cep' money.'
'The man who is absorbed in money-getting is generally a quiet citizen.'
'P'raps that's so. But I think a man sh'u'd hev a soul suthin' 'bove dollars. Them folks will take any sort o' sarce from the Yankees, ef they only buy thar truck.'
'What do you suffer from the Yankees?'
'Suffer from the Yankees? Don't they steal our niggers, and hain't they 'lected an ab'lishener for President?'
'I've been at the North lately, but I am not aware that is so.'
'So! it's damnably so, sir. I knows it. We don't mean to stand it eny longer.'
'What will you do?'
'We'll secede, and then give 'em h—l, ef they want it!'
'Will it not be necessary to agree among yourselves before you do that? I met a turpentine farmer below here who openly declared that he is friendly to abolishing slavery. He thinks the masters can make more money by hiring than by owning the negroes.'