Whitelaw Reid: “When a nation stops growing it has passed the meridian of its course, and its shadows fall eastward.”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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.

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

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