Whitelaw Reid: “They expected nothing; were prepared for the worst; would have been thankful for anything.”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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

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

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.