How we cite our quotes: (Act, Scene, Line)
Quote #4
BRADY. […] I have come because what has happened in a schoolroom of your town has unloosed a wicked attack from the big cities of the North!—an attack upon the law which you have so wisely placed among the statutes of this state. (I, I, 432-27)
Brady is playing on old tensions between the north and south in the U.S. to show his audience that he's one of them—not an outsider like Drummond. Even though the Civil War was almost one hundred years old at the time the play was written, those old scars are still vulnerable. Especially if you're from the South, you know that there's some truth to this animosity between the northern and southern states, even today.
Quote #5
MAYOR. Just about everybody in Hillsboro knows everybody else. (I, I, 517)
Sometimes you wanna go, where everybody knows your name. And sometimes you want to get out. That's small-town life for you.
Quote #6
HORNBECK. There's a newspaper here I'd like to have you see.
It just arrived
From that wicked modern Sodom and Gomorrah,
Baltimore! (I, I, 706-09)
Here, Hornbeck is poking fun at the Hillsboro residents' religious beliefs. He's likening his own city to the burned-down cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which, in the Old Testament, were destroyed by God for their sinful ways. Obviously he doesn't think modernity is bad; he just wants to make the townspeople look like fools for their outdated and ignorant (in his opinion) beliefs.