Whitelaw Reid: “As a Government it was invested with all the attributes of sovereignty....”

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

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.

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

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.