Whitelaw Reid: “They would have precedents, too, to quote, and dangerous ones.”

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

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

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.