Whitelaw Reid: “Our Proclamation of Emancipation bore wider blessings than they knew who signed it.”

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.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

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