We don't put on style and wear store clothes like you big folks down about Danville, but we live in our plain way, wear our home-spun and eat our hog and hominy; but if there is anything on earth that these people do love, it is the truth.
Stevenson emphasizes the value of truth among the people he speaks to, contrasting their simplicity with urban sophistication.
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I believe that Congress possesses Constitutional power to abolish it.
My fellow-citizens have a right to know my views upon all public questions, and I have nothing to conceal.
Irishmen, in common with liberty-loving men everywhere, looked with abhorrence upon the attempt of a great European power to establish monarchy upon the ruins of republics.
In the presence of such majestic power we can only stand awed and silent.