Whitelaw Reid: “Are we content, for example, with the way we have dealt with the negro problem in the Southern States?”

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

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.

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.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.