Whitelaw Reid: “Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail…”

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.

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.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.