Whitelaw Reid: “If these worthless vagabonds were to be allowed to have a share in the future government of the State, no man could tell…”

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.

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

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

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.