Whitelaw Reid: “Lands that are worth sixty and eighty dollars an acre, you’re selling for ten and twelve.”

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

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

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

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.