Whitelaw Reid: “These States, this territory, and future States to be admitted into the Union, are the sole objects of the Constitution.”

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

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

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

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?