Whitelaw Reid: “They had been offered an inch; they were soon to be seen clamorous for ells.”

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

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

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

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.