It was a city when New York was still a village, and it is now 100 years behind any American town of its size.

Prices of everything here seem to me to be very high, and the money of the country is dirty, nasty paper, which is always below par, and of which you get twelve dollars for five American ones.

A Cuban dollar is worth about forty American cents, and this Cuban scrip is ground out as fast as the presses can print it.

I should judge from what I heard from intelligent Cuban Americans living there, and even Spaniards themselves, that the island is in a condition of ill-suppressed revolt.

I think they have given over the idea of independence, for they begin to recognize that they are incapable of self-government.

No serfs in Russia were ever greater slaves than the Cubans are to Spain.

I venture to say that not a single native Cuban holds an office or receives public emolument.

In spite of the drains upon her, Cuba is enormously rich in resources, and is a large consumer of our products, on which at present the heavy Spanish duties rest.

What I would favor would be a reciprocity treaty with Spain, as to Cuba, so that we might send our goods there instead of forcing the Cubans to buy of England, France and Germany.

We could do the island much more good by trading with her on an equal basis than we ever can by annexing her.

Cuba, to some extent, is under our eye, we would probably never let any other nation than Spain own the island, but so long as Spain does own it she is welcome to it if she will only let us sell our goods on equal or better terms than the…

While we respect your political and statesmanlike life, not an event has equaled your manly and heroic conduct in Birmingham, Alabama, in respect to the persecuted, proscribed and downtrodden black citizens, on account of their race, color…

When you stated to the tavern keeper, if the black citizens were not permitted to visit you there, you would go to another tavern, and if not permitted, you would stop with your baggage in the street and receive them, shows a sympathy and…

One of them paid me a compliment after hearing my speech by saying: "Sherman, your speech will trouble the boys some, but I could answer you.

I claimed my fellowship with the people of Tennessee in the old Whig times, and, aside from the questions that grew out of the war, assumed that they were still in favor of the policy of protection of American industries by tariff laws.

I did not evade the slavery question or the War of the Rebellion, but said of them what I would have said in Ohio.

On these questions I said the people of Tennessee had like interests and opinions with the people of Ohio, that the past was beyond recall, that for evil or good the record was made up and laid away.

I discussed each of these subjects, dwelling mainly on taxation and currency; in the one was the protection and promotion of home industries, and in the other was the choice between bank notes of the olden time, and United States notes and…

We make this appeal in the same words to the Confederate gray as to the Union blue--to whoever in our great country is willing in the future to lend a helping hand or vote to advance the honor, grandeur and prosperity of this great…

He spoke for high protection, for internal improvements, for liberal expenditures on public buildings, for the Blair education bill, for the maintenance of the present currency system, and for spending the surplus revenue for public…

He told his hearers, also, that the war is over, and that the interests of Tennessee and other southern states must naturally draw them to the Republican party.

He had not voted for it because they were negroes, but he had voted for it because they were men and women.

What the race wanted was not more rights but more education.

Their rights were secured to them by the constitution of the United States, and the time would come when they would enjoy them as freely as anyone.

He said the best way to overcome all prejudice was by elevating themselves; but not by gaudy extravagance, groans, abuse, war, or tumult of war.