Whitelaw Reid: “Is it easy, in the face of such facts, to preserve your respect for an objection so obviously captious as that based on…”

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

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.