Joseph Gurney Cannon Quote

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.


Referring to a practice during the Civil War, quoted in a tribute to Cannon on his retirement; reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).


In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.