Whitelaw Reid: “So, too, when necessarily that other question arose: “Shall we give arms to the black men?” I could not doubt or…”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

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.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.