Whitelaw Reid: “It may flourish in Arcadia or Altruria, but it does not among the sons of the Pilgrims, or on the continent they subdued…”

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

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

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

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.