Whitelaw Reid: “Then the manly exercise of a just responsibility enfeebles instead of developing and strengthening a nation.”

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

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.