Whitelaw Reid: “By all means let us avoid a fussy meddling with their customs, manners, prejudices, and beliefs.”

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

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

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