Whitelaw Reid: “Some day, when Georgia has fully recovered, this spot too, will feel the returning tide of her generous, healthy blood.”

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.