Whitelaw Reid: “Will not you original Union men be again outnumbered by the original secessionists?”

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

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.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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