Whitelaw Reid: “The sugar-planters had all ostentatiously proclaimed that the Emancipation Proclamation had demoralized their labor and…”

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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.

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.