Whitelaw Reid: “It was easy to see that the old political tricks were not forgotten, and that the first inch of wrong concession would…”

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

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.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.