Whitelaw Reid: “Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.”

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

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.

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

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