Earl Felton

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    Violent measures are always dangerous, but, when necessary, may then be looked on as wise. They have, however, the advantage of never being matter of indifference; and, when well concerted, must be decisive.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
    —Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)