Whitelaw Reid: “All felt the quartering of negro guards among them to be a deliberate, wanton, cruel act of insult and oppression.”

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

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

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

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.