Whitelaw Reid: “I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.”

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

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

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.