Whitelaw Reid: “Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.