The Chief Collector continued collecting and preaching Racial Equality; Senor Simeon Talibat continued judging, and often sentencing, honourable men, some of whom were white; and the only unfortunate thing was that Vagas and his friends had to be hanged.
— from The Law of the Bolo by Stanley Portal Hyatt

The question of slavery and secession, he said, had been decided against the South, but every political and property right, except slavery, still remained.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming