Whitelaw Reid: “That a great city must spring up hereabouts, has been laid down as an axiom.”

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

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

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

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.