Whitelaw Reid: “Let them get in again, and they would be up and hissing at once.”

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

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.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.