Whitelaw Reid: “We’ve been guilty of a great crime; we have reason to be thankful that we are treated as leniently as we are, and it…”

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.