Whitelaw Reid: “Above all, we must give and enforce justice; and for the rest, as far as possible, leave them alone.”

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

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

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.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?