Whitelaw Reid: “Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off…”

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.