Virginia Clay-Clopton

American suffragist (1825–1915)

Quotations with a citation

There is no more prospect of a Speaker now than there was at first; indeed, less, and our men have despaired of Christmas holidays at home.

I did not witness these celestial phenomena being sound asleep as a child should be; but, for years afterward, time was marked from that great event.

So we parted, and, though at that time the Colonel did not doubt but that mine was a dreaming girl's talk, my premonitions were promptly realised.

I think I wept, for it was a time to start the tears; but her reply checked my complainings.

After all, the British people are more friendly to us than all the world besides, outside of the [question of] Southern Confederacy.