I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited. — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America. — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
