Whitelaw Reid: “We’ll unite with the opposition up North, and between us we’ll make a majority.”

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

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.

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

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.