Whitelaw Reid: “They were not willing to think their conquerors could mean to inflict such degradation upon a gallant people.”

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.