Whitelaw Reid: “Last spring, you can form no conception of the utter, abject humiliation of the Southern people.”

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.