Whitelaw Reid: “The South never was exhausted of men, sir; there were plenty of them everywhere.”

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

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

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

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