Whitelaw Reid: “But it is amazing what difference success or failure makes in the soundness of a principle!”

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

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

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

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