Whitelaw Reid: “The men who were to legislate safely for the Freedmen were the men from whom the national victory extorted freedom to…”

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

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.

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.