Whitelaw Reid: “There is the only safe ground--on the letter and the spirit of the Constitution.”

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.

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

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

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.