Whitelaw Reid: “The greatest ocean on the globe has been put in our hands, the ocean that is to bear the commerce of the Twentieth…”

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

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

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

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