"The right honorable Congressman Etheridge mistook the young man for a Negro in the dim light - and under South Cah'lina law was justifiable in detaining him to protect the honor of the White women"
...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
- "Foster's Case," New York Tribune, 10 March 1873