Whitelaw Reid: “When a man stops in his physical and intellectual growth he begins to decay.”

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

In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.