Whitelaw Reid: “We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.”

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

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

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.

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