Whitelaw Reid: “Thus Article XIII says: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... shall exist within the United States or any place…”

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

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

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.