[Little Rock] Daily State Journal, October 31, 1861
Either country people think town denizens are chameleons and “doth feed on air,” and consequently regard it useless to bring their surplus provender to market, or the retailers here demand exhorbitant prices. If the first is the case, we pathetically appeal to ye countrymen to have some mercy on lank stomachs and empty larders; if the second, for the sake of humanity, relax your mercenary nerves and “do unto others as ye would others should do unto you.”