Whitelaw Reid: “No civilized nation is more thoroughly committed to the policy of international arbitration than the United States.”

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.

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

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

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.