Whitelaw Reid: “Trade always softens away angularities of prejudice, and too often of principle also.”

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

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

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.