Whitelaw Reid: “But for the duty of this hour, consider if there is not a common meeting-ground and instant necessity for union in a…”

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

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

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.