Whitelaw Reid: “Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?”

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.

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

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.