Whitelaw Reid: “When a business stops growing it is in danger of decline.”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

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

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?