Whitelaw Reid

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Whitelaw Reid was an American politician, diplomat and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.