Whitelaw Reid: “Lands that are worth sixty and eighty dollars an acre, you’re selling for ten and twelve.”

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

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

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

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.