Whitelaw Reid: “Let them get in again, and they would be up and hissing at once.”

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.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?