Whitelaw Reid: “However these men may have regarded the negro slave, they hated the negro freeman.”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.