Let no man fancy that these sometimes exuberant expressions of a noble and far-seeing faith by your own predecessors and by a prescient foreigner have been revived in derision or even in doubt.
Reid defends the optimistic visions of California's predecessors against skepticism.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
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.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.