Whitelaw Reid: “Negro suffrage seemed to all the most revolting of possibilities.”

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.

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

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