Whitelaw Reid: “It was a war to put down a rule over an alien people, which we declared so barbarous that we could no longer tolerate…”

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.