Whitelaw Reid: “Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off…”

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

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.

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

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.