Whitelaw Reid: “In no circumstances likely to exist within a century should they be admitted as States of the Union.”

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.

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.

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

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?