Whitelaw Reid: “Reckon if it’s good for white folks, good for me too.”

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

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

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