Whitelaw Reid: “This new knowledge, these new duties and interests, must have two effects--they must extend our power, influence, and…”

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

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.

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

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.