Whitelaw Reid: “Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do…”

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.