Whitelaw Reid: “I’ll never give in to the new-fangled notions again.”

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

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