Whitelaw Reid: “And when war came, there came also the idea, gradually growing into settled conviction in the hearts of the people, that…”

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

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

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