Whitelaw Reid: “The constitutional power is no longer seriously disputed, and even those who raised the doubt do not seem now to rely…”

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

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

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.