Whitelaw Reid: “The General Government is expected, however, to be controlled as to personal and civil rights by the general principles…”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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

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

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.