Whitelaw Reid: “Through such difficulties is it that the subject-race is called upon to prove, by its prosperity, its fitness for…”

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.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

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

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.