Whitelaw Reid: “We acknowledge the whipping, but we don’t kiss the hand that gave it—not by a d——d sight!”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.