As our troops advance toward the South . . .

. . . they find the sentiment existing among the white people, that it is the course of the Lincolnites to hang, burn and otherwise maltreat their enemies, while no such impression seems to pervade the negro mind, although particular pains had been taken to instill into such an idea.  Shall we argue from this that the negro is the more sensible?

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 2