Charles Sumner: “If Reconstruction and Amnesty perplex us still, it is because we did not begin to deal with them sooner.”

Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.

The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.

They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.

Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.