Whitelaw Reid: “That these glowing anticipations of Port Royal greatness will be realized, at least in part, is unquestionable.”

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

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