Whitelaw Reid: “Then the manly exercise of a just responsibility enfeebles instead of developing and strengthening a nation.”

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

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

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