Whitelaw Reid: “The “old families” seem, in many cases, exhausted of force and energy.”

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.

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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