Whitelaw Reid: “Isn’t it more statesmanlike, then, to avoid adding to our popular discontent?”

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.

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.

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