Whitelaw Reid: “Through such difficulties is it that the subject-race is called upon to prove, by its prosperity, its fitness for…”

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

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.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

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