Whitelaw Reid: “Crossing from Mobile to New Orleans was going from the past of the South to its present.”

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.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

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