Whitelaw Reid: “If it was proposed to conciliate the South, they must no longer be subjected to such iniquitous oppression.”

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

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.

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

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