Whitelaw Reid: “My last word is an appeal to stand firm and stand all together for the Continental Union and for a pure civil service…”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

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

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

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.