Whitelaw Reid: “Is it said that our Nation is already too great, that all its magnificent growth only adds to the conflicting interests…”

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.

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

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?