Indian Queen

 "We all know that the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book called 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in 1853 was regarded by a large element as the main factor in bringing on the war. And another school of writers for a generation past have contended that Yancey's fire-eating oratory, so to speak, and leadership in the South was responsible for this, the greatest calamity that befell the human race up till that period of time. And as stated above, was in evidence that night. He was there in all his glory. So that it is just possible that the old-time Tuscaloosa folks were correct in claiming that THE MUSTARD SEED OF SECESSION WAS SOWN THAT NIGHT IN THE RECEPTION ROOMS OF THE OLD INDIAN QUEEN." ~ Thomas Clinton in the May 17, 1925 TUSCALOOSA NEWS