Whitelaw Reid: “He was a model of muscular strength, and had a fine intelligent face; though there were lines about it that spoke of…”

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.

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

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