Whitelaw Reid: “No doubt, Executive action in advance of Congress might be satisfactory; but a President is apt to wait for Congress…”

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.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

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