Whitelaw Reid: “If we dawdle, and hesitate, and lead them to think we fear them and fear trouble, our trouble will be great.”

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.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.