Whitelaw Reid: “Stop wasting valuable strength by showing how things might be different if something different had been done a year and…”

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

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

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