Whitelaw Reid: “This flunkeyism of Northern men, who “expected to stay in this country and didn’t want to make enemies,” was manifest…”

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.

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.

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.