Whitelaw Reid: “But, up to this point, the question of negro education is no longer an experiment.”

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.

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.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

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